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To my ears, this was the speech of a veteran campaigner rather than a prime-minister-in-waiting. I still don't believe he has what it takes.

He talks quickly and directly, like a campaigner rather than an administrator, as if there's no time to spend yakking in roundtable groups, drinking warm white wine with policy wonks or schmoozing civil servants.

On Friday, Whittingdale, the culture secretary and leading Vote Leave campaigner, called on ITV to think again or face a referral to Ofcom about its "extraordinary" decision Speaking as a Brexit campaigner rather than in his cabinet role, Whittingdale said it would be "fair" to refer the decision to the regulator.

It is a bizarre sense of priorities that leads him to attack peace campaigners rather than warmongers.

It is a bizarre sense of priorities that leads him to attack peace campaigners rather than warmongers.

Grayling attacked the social policy commentator for being on the side of "militant campaigners" rather than the "most effective" scheme in the government's armoury for tackling youth unemployment, which he stressed was voluntary.

Rallies took place in front of invited activists, who were given instructions to be enthusiastic, and filmed in such a way to make it look on TV as if they were well attended by hundreds of campaigners rather than a few dozen.

Brown is a pretty lethal campaigner, but he says he is looking forward to being the candidate, rather than the election strategist stuck in party headquarters.

Both are reluctant campaigners, wonkish rather than telegenic.

Although the controls are still imperfect -- campaigners would rather see independent monitoring -- they are an important start to a process that may some day extend to a broader range of commodities.

In some cases, children raised as Christians have discovered that, because a divorced parent converted to Islam, they too have become officially Muslim, and cannot claim otherwise.Such restrictions on religious freedom are not directly a product of sharia, say human-rights campaigners, but rather of rigid interpretations of Islamic law by over-zealous officials.