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They were attacked as warmongers, threatened with deselection and despised by Neville Chamberlain, who branded them the Glamour Boys . Yet a new book has claimed that a group of gay MPs were among the first to warn Britain about the danger Hitler posed. Four of them later died in action.The extraordinary untold story of gay and bisexual British politicians and their bravery in the second world war has been unearthed by Chris Bryant, Labour MP for Rhondda.Without these parliamentary rebels sounding the alarm as early as 1932 and speaking and voting against Chamberlains policy of appeasement, Bryant argues, Britain would never have gone to war with Hitler, Churchill would never have become prime minister and Nazism would never have been defeated .Using previously unseen documents, including diaries, private letters, photo albums and material found in the National Archives, Tate galleries and Eton College library, Bryant spent five yea stanley cup usa rs piecing together the stories of men whose sexuality and heroism has been excised from history until now.View image in fullscreenThe Night of the Long Knives stanley thermobecher in Berlin, 1934. Photograph: Photo 12/AlamyFrom Jack Macnamara, the young Conservative MP for Chelmsford, and Ronnie Cartland, the younger brother of the novelist Ba stanley cup rbara, to Victor Cazalet, a first world war hero, and Robert Bernays, a Liberal member of the national government, Bryant charts their alarm at Hitlers territorial ambitions, prompted by their frequent trips to Berlin, then con Yiio Battle over voting rights restrictions moves to North Carolina
Two million UK citizens working abroad could become illegal immigrants overnight if Britain were to leave the European Union, former attorney general Dominic Grieve has warned.In a hard-hitting attack on Eurosceptic stanley nz s inside and outside the Conservative party, Grieve condemned those who want to tear up the UKs international treaty obligations and withdraw from both the EU and the European Court of Human Rights.His comments come ahead of next months launch of the Tory election manifesto, which water bottle stanley is expected to commit the party to leaving the jurisdiction of the Strasbourg court 鈥?although a long-promised draft bill has yet to be published stanley cup . There seems to be growing irritation towards how international obligations operate |
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