Grover Norquist is an anti-tax evangelist whose special interest group, Americans for Tax Reform, has all but captured the tax and revenue policy apparatus of the Republican Party.
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Mr Cortes also urged the Labour Party to change its policy to one of restoring state ownership, something the party is reported to be considering as part of its current policy review.
But, according to BBC deputy political editor James Landale, the plan "has angered many Conservative MPs and councillors who think the policy would alienate many of the party's suburban supporters if unattractive extensions sprang up across the country".
The MP for Witney in Oxfordshire, who will be making a speech in Edinburgh on Monday, also said he had "no particular view" on cutting the number of members of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, which is the policy of his party in Scotland.
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But the resurgence of the Democrats will nevertheless have a profound influence on the direction of American foreign policy, given the party's strong disagreements with the Bush doctrine.
Since 2000 he has aggressively sought and won a number of important policy posts within the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
For Labour, shadow Treasury minister Cathy Jamieson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she was "surprised" the Lib Dems no longer seemed to support the policy and accused the party of being inconsistent.
Some of the speakers painted various scenarios of what the future of energy policy will look like depending on which party takes office.
Mr Kennedy on Wednesday outlined the initial findings of the party's policy review for the public services.
The committee also said that "having signed a declaration on 5 May 1998 that he would faithfully support the current policy of the UUP and that he would accept the party whip, he has failed to do so on an ongoing basis".
However, the party dropped their policy of backing a 50p rate before the last election.
If they do, then the Welsh party will surely consider the policy of distancing themselves in certain key areas from their colleagues' decisions at Westminster to have been a success.
Next year, it seems likely that Alex Maskey, the first Sinn Fein member to be elected to Belfast City Council after the party dropped its policy of abstention in 1981, could be elected as the city's lord mayor.
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Mr Blair's determination to dictate the Scottish Labour Party's tax policy in this situation seems to violate the entire spirit of how his party has, together with the Liberal Democrats and others, proposed that the Edinburgh parliament should operate.
It was also that, as part of the deal he had done with Gordon Brown over the leadership of the party, Mr Blair had in effect ceded control of domestic policy to the chancellor.
As for immigration policy, the inclusion of the Freedom Party in government for the past three years has made only a slight difference.
Referring to America's policy of shunning Hamas, the Islamist party that won last year's Palestinian elections, he said it was counterproductive to isolate anybody.
Any changes are more likely to be the product of boundary shifts rather than voters' detailed scrutiny of the party's policy positions.
It is the result of a policy shift that occurred immediately after the Republican Party's defeat in the Congressional elections in November.
Labor delegates to the conference voted 206-185 in favour of the motion to change the party's policy.
It is frustrating to watch the American voter be fed from a vast menu of non-fact-based spin without challenge by the party that supposedly understands pro-growth tax policy and the importance of capitalism and the free markets.
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He said the party had spoken in terms of their policy ahead of the next election.
The Observer's lead is that a series of leaked emails between key figures in UKIP reveals growing chaos at the heart of the party as it struggles to fill a policy vacuum just days before the local elections.
The Welsh Lib Dems say Mr Cable's comments were not party policy but indicated the levels of cuts needed in the current economic climate.
"In view of the fact that many of the proposals for Greece have not been implemented, the suggestion for more control and supervision goes in the right direction, " Norbert Barthle, a budget policy leader for the centre-right CDU party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, told Reuters.
The AK party has also reversed decades of official policy by trying to meet the demands of Turkey's large Kurdish minority (some 14m in a total population of 72m).
To find out more about these problems, and the European Commission's forthcoming proposals on changing the rules, the Record:Europe spoke to Glenis Willmott MEP from the UK Labour Party and Luiza Bara , director of policy and strategy for the European Public Health Alliance.
In a statement, the Alliance Party said it was standing firmly behind its policy of flying the union flag at council headquarters on designated days and was called for the Northern Ireland Executive to legislate for this as a requirement for all councils.
This system of policy-making plays safe, keeping everything well within the boundaries of the official party structure.
Then a series of electoral defeats and policy reviews led the party to alter its approach.
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