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disowned

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In return the former leader has disowned Marine, threatened legal action and called for her to change her name.

The family feud between the far-right Front National leader, Marine Le Pen, and her father, Jean-Marie, has turned to all-out war after he disowned her, told her to marry and change her name, and threatened legal action following his suspension from the party.

Asked if he disowned his daughter, Le Pen said he did so absolutely.

Speaking to parliamentary magazine The House, Cable disowned the headline policy of reducing net migration to "tens of thousands" by the next election, saying: "It isn't government policy, it is Conservative policy.

Twice-divorced Field, whose three grown-up children disowned him, has carried out a string of sex offences against young boys from the 1950s onwards, and served three jail terms, including four years for attempting to abduct two youths aged 13 and 16 in 1984.

The self-styled elder statesman of the far-right, who remains a FN MEP and regional councillor, told Europe 1 radio on Tuesday his daughter had behaved in a scandalous and perfidious manner towards him and that he now totally disowned her.

Lampitt will be edited out of any future showings of the broadcast, and pending his suspension he is expected to be disowned if he continues to try to stand as a Ukip candidate in Merton, south London, in the London council elections next month.

Across Europe, gay, lesbian, bi and trans people are disowned by their families, often to be beaten, humiliated and locked away by society.

As for Miliband, the son of leftwing intellectual parents who arrived in Britain as refugees from Hitler, in demanding a more ethical and regulated kind of capitalism, he has disowned much of Blair's legacy and captured some of the anti-elite anger evident across Europe.

Ron Paul's New Hampshire campaign immediately disowned the ad: The video was utterly distasteful and no one who actually supports Dr Paul's principles would have made it.

For genetics in particular, truths must be disowned because they are embarrassing.

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