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I have just learned that Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, has died at the age of 90. In the last week we have lost Cheryl Gillan, Peter Ainsworth and Ian Gibson from the ranks of politicians or ex-politicians. And now Shirley. I do hope her death is not eclipsed in the news by the ongoing aftermath of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. Shirley was a top ranking politician and a truly wonderful human being and deserves more. I first met her in 1977. In fact, she was the first politician I ever saw in real life. At the time she was serving in Jim Callaghan s cabinet and she came to my school in Saffron Walden to give a speech. The school hall was full. I do not remember anything she said, but I do remember shyly shaking hands with her afterwards. Sadly I can t remember what was said. ....
It goes against him as many predict, i would get up and say, you know what, we made some real mistakes, i had wrong priors and i wanted to do the right things maybe we did too much. let me tell you the country is in series straight and i want to do something about what the future will look like and i would begin the country is very forgiving. neil: why not say i would rather do something for the good of people and fail. what do you make of him pivoting on immigration out of the blue? guest: total politics. here is a president would, he had veto proof majority the first two years, he kept promising he would do something about it and kept not doing it, and, then, his homeland security secretary jap secretary napolitano has been running around saying we deported more people than any other president and you come out and say, well, now i will do the dream act after you have been on television saying i don t have the power to do it. ....