Baroness Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has made no policy of note and struggled with only indifferent success to establish her authority against other E.

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The only new policy initiatives in Mr Howard's key note policy speech 10 days before the polls offered more money on an anti-drugs campaign and for pensioners and tax breaks for parents who stay at home to raise their children.

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