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Portrait of the week.(Conservative Party, United Kingdom)

Spectator

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Mr David Davis, Mr Kenneth Clarke, Mr David Cameron, Dr Liam Fox and Sir Malcolm Rifkind displayed what attractions they could muster as candidates for the leadership of the Conservative party at its annual conference in Blackpool. Boots the chemist, with 1,400 outlets in Britain, announced a merger with Allied UniChem, with 1,250 outlets in Britain and Europe, to produce a company with 100,000 employees and a value of 7 billion [pounds sterling]. A takeover of Telewest by its rival British cable operator NTL was expected to produce a communications company with revenues of 3.4 billion [pounds sterling]. BP warned that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita might knock more than 400 …

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