He was finally brought to a halt with the help of an outrider.

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Earlier this month, Nick Boles, a new Tory MP and kite-flying outrider for the modernising camp, called for the two parties to forge an electoral pact at the next election.

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Some on the Conservative right find his existence convenient, because he is an outrider and they can look more pro-government than he does, without having to make any real policy sacrifice in the process.

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For Hamas, the objective of their humanitarian activities, however, is identical to that of their terrorist cells: the destruction of the "infidel" West's outrider in the region, Israel, as part of a wider jihad (holy war) against non-believers globally.

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They threw millions of people out of stable and comparatively well-paid work into infrequent, badly paid temporary jobs or trapped them in towns suddenly bereft of any reason to exist and with no jobs to apply for (intriguingly, this is a position that Norman Tebbit, a Thatcherite outrider interviewed in the book, seems to have some sympathy with).

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