Last year, a number of other candidates, including 2011 Iowa straw poll winner Michelle Bachmann, as well as other national security and public policy figures, lent their names to the Peace Through Strength Platform, and its objective of applying that Reagan philosophy to contemporary challenges.

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Mr Shayler hit the headlines in 1997, when he made a series of claims about the activities of MI5, including revelations that it had kept files on current politicians, including Home Secretary Jack Straw.

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This time around there are 23 names on the straw poll ballot, including some who were not invited to CPAC.

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Howell, also known as Sharmon Wade, and fellow members of his ring recruited straw buyers from unlikely locales, including a halfway house for recently released cons.

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After users continued to decline and SWTOR went almost entirely free to play, to most, including EA apparently, that was the final straw that indicated the title was indeed a failure.

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Board members outlined to Mr Straw evidence of a catalogue of incidents, including attacks on synagogues.

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Many members of the Westminster cabinet were present including the chancellor and his wife Sarah, Home Secretary Jack Straw, Social Security Alastair Darling, Education Secretary David Blunkett, Culture Secretary Chris Smith and Cabinet Office Minister Mo Mowlam.

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Little wonder that many senior members of Mr Blair's cabinet, including John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, Gordon Brown, the chancellor and Jack Straw, the home secretary, have let it be known that they would prefer to stick with the current first-past-the-post system.

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