Former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott said Mr Hester's decision was "better late than never".
For Oakeshott, there could be no technical, let alone purely economic, approach to a healthy society.
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Summarising Oakeshott in this way is bound to make him sound a hothouse English plant.
ECONOMIST: In their different ways, defenders both of an open society
Rob Oakeshott, one of them, says his deal is with Ms Gillard, not Labor.
Paul Franco's study of Oakeshott's thought leaves his outwardly cheerful life on one side.
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"Vicky was very much interested in telling her side of the story, " Ms Oakeshott told the court.
The Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Oakeshott, has said it is "not sustainable for Andy Hornby not to follow".
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Pryce first told Ms Oakeshott she had taken points for her ex-husband over a lunch in March 2011.
However the Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Oakeshott, said that if Mr Diamond had any shame, he would resign.
She spoke to Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott and the pair discussed how they could publish the story.
In just over 200 pages he provides a commanding overview, setting Oakeshott in the context of other modern thinkers, including Hart.
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Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott said he was not in favour of having referendums "on fundamental decisions that have already been taken".
Now Lord Oakeshott helped run Chris Huhne's leadership campaign against Nick Clegg but he's still a friend of Vicky's as well as Chris's.
Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, two independents whose price for supporting Ms Gillard included a revival of climate-change action, are also on the committee.
During her trial, the court saw a series of emails between Vicky Pryce and Sunday Times journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who broke news of the scandal.
Mr Edis said Ms Oakeshott told her it would fulfil her dual objective - "bringing Chris down without damaging your own reputation in the process".
But the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott dismissed that idea entirely.
The support of two rural MPs, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, gave Ms Gillard's Labor party its wafer-thin majority, after several weeks of talks following inconclusive election.
Lord Oakeshott should come and see what we have achieved.
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Asked about Labour's allegation that Mr Cameron did not genuinely want to reach a deal in Brussels, Lord Oakeshott told the BBC's Politics Show he believed "a walk-out quite suited him".
Whether or not you end up accepting Oakeshott's vision of a civilised, clubbable society as achievable or even attractive, Mr Franco's fine introduction shows, on the contrary, what a tough and wily thinker he was.
ECONOMIST: In their different ways, defenders both of an open society
But Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott said his party's Business Secretary Vince Cable had "given a very serious warning last Monday in the cabinet against elevating these financial regulation points into a make or break deal".
The media commentator Steve Hewlitt told the programme that the Sunday Times' journalist Isobel Oakeshott's relationship with Vicky Price "wouldn't be the first time that a journalist has connived with someone who has a story to tell".
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In a conference week peppered with dire warnings, the party's former Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott suggested that if the economy does not improve by the time of the next election, the government and the Lib Dems could be "slaughtered".
Ms Pryce, who denies the offence, recorded the calls with the help of Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott around April 2011, as she tried to get the former MP to admit points-swapping for a speeding offence from 2003.
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Although there has been little dissent among Lib Dem MPs, several peers - including former Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott - have urged Mr Clegg to stand down before the next election in 2015 to help the party regain support.
Ms Oakeshott told the jury in a later conversation Ms Pryce said the first she had known about the speeding points was when she received a letter saying she had been nominated as the driver by the owner of the vehicle.
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