A Breath of Fresh Air ; He's Slashed Public Spending (Including His Own Salary), Axed Pointless Council Non-Jobs and Banned the Word 'Diversity'. Why Can't Dave and Gordon Learn a Few Lessons From Britain's Most Gloriously Un-Pc Supermayor?Saturday Essay [Edition 2]

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BY HIS own admission, Peter Davies would make a dreadful Foreign Secretary. Aside from the fact that he has never been in a plane and has been abroad only once (a four-day break to Paris in 1988), diplomacy is not his forte.

This is, after all, a man who proudly proclaims his contempt for 'diversity'.

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A Breath of Fresh Air ; He's Slashed Public Spending (Including His Own Salary), Axed Pointless Council Non-Jobs and Banned the Word 'Diversity'. Why Can't Dave and Gordon Learn a Few Lessons From Britain's Most Gloriously Un-Pc Supermayor?Saturday Essay [Edition 2]

So the week after next it is going to be interesting when Mr Davies welcomes a delegation of German VIPs on an allexpenses-paid visit to his home town -- and tells them not to bother coming back.

'I have only two words of German: "Auf" and "Wiedersehen", ' he says. 'But those are the only words I need.' And no one is going to stop this proud Yorkshireman. To the shock and dismay of many local councillors and MPs, most of Westminster and the entire Government, the assiduously straight-talking Mr Davies has just become one of the most powerful politicians in Britain.

To make things worse, he did so while a member of one of ...

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