He was also declared the most rebellious member of the Tories' new intake by the Conservative Home website.

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Enfield and Haringey also declared as returning a Labour assembly member.

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Soon after a special investigative committee of the House of Representatives, led by a member of Golkar, declared, with little scientific backing, that the mudflow was a natural disaster.

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Labour Party candidate Toby Harris entered the history books as the first member elected to the GLA in Brent and Harrow, the first constituency seat of the 25-member assembly to be declared.

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In the 1870s, one ABS history says, a member of its own board of managers publicly declared the nonprofit had "doctored" its financial statements to make it seem poor and to stimulate donations.

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And after Derek rapped a forecast for the coming weekend, they declared they would sack bandmate Maggot to make way for him as their new member.

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Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and a member of Hamas' rival Fatah party, dissolved Gaza's Hamas-led government and declared a state of emergency in 2007.

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Duncan Brack, a former member of the party's Federal Policy Committee, suggested Mr Osborne "seemed to have declared war on green energy" by seeking to revise green regulation, cut subsidies for offshore wind and carbon emission targets.

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