David Cameron insists what matters is not the theatre, though, but a swift inquiry which can recommend practical changes in the law to be implemented within months.

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What matters, says David E.

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The actual risk of any out-of-pocket settlement by a director is quite low says Stanford University Professor David Larcker, author of Corporate Governance Matters.

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Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK's credit rating "matters because the most important thing is to keep interest rates low, to keep mortgage rates low".

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There matters might have rested had it not been for David Dodge, a constitutional gadfly based in Miami.

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The reason this case of parliamentary "handbags" matters is that Norman was just the sort of MP David Cameron would have expected to promote at his next reshuffle.

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David All, who at the time ran his own PR firm and collaborated on Malaysia Matters, also provided cash.

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He criticised the Edinburgh Agreement (between the FM and David Cameron) on the grounds that it excluded "the Mother of Parliaments" from sorting such matters, shifting them instead to Westminster.

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Only a few days ago David Cameron told me he was pleased that the eurozone deal meant that world leaders could now deal with other matters.

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Sir David's book is tougher and much harder edged, with far more attention paid not merely to military matters but to the diplomatic and strategic context in which Frederick the Great operated.

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