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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (459376)2/25/2009 6:37:44 PM
From: tejek   of 1574128
 
If only America had conservatives like this guy. I guess life has to kick one in the butt before one can get compassion....

"Conservative foreign affairs spokesman William Hague told MPs that Ivan Cameron's six years of life "were not easy ones."

"Ivan their son suffered much in his short life but he brought joy and love to those around him. As David himself has said in the past, for him and Samantha he will always be their beautiful boy."

Cameron and his wife Samantha have two other children, Nancy, 5, and Arthur, 3.

"David and Samantha would ask that their privacy is respected at this terribly difficult time," they said in a statement.

Cameron's experience of caring for Ivan has been seen as the driving force behind his promotion of "Compassionate Conservatism," helping make the party electable again after a decade in the political wilderness.

The party is ahead in opinion polls with the most recent surveys predicting the Conservatives would be returned to government if an election were held now.

Before Cameron was elected leader in December 2005, the Conservatives had struggled to shake off their image of being, in the words of one-time chairman Theresa May, the "nasty party."

Cameron has made a priority of defending the state-funded National Health Service, praising it for all the help it had given his elder son.

"When your family relies on the NHS all the time -- day after day, night after night -- you know how precious it is," he said."

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uk.reuters.com
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