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Strathclyde's swipe

The Tories wheeled out their answer to John Prescott today for a knockabout conference finale - a hereditary peer and landowner.

Tom Strathclyde - also known as Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde - took the slot that Labour reserves for the burly Mr Prescott. The prohunting-peer lampooned the "upside-down world" of New Labour, saying: "Only in Blair's Britain will convoys of police pour out of our cities to stake out country lanes, while vanloads of muggers drive in the other direction to towns stripped bare of police."

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