Baby Avoids Being Kissed

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What's up with the first seven paragraphs not being about the titular kissless baby?

The campaign delivers its first shock: 14-month old baby avoids being kissed

By Paul Vallely

06 April 2005

Even before the Prime Minister could announce the date of the election, Michael Howard, the Tory leader, was on his feet getting his retaliation in first.

He was taking no chances. There were microphones on both lapels of his suit, just in case. His speaking lectern had been placed under the modern glass canopy outside the classical courtyard of the Chancery Court Hotel in central London, lest it rain upon his parade.

His staff had even sought to forestall jibes about Mr Howard's dark Thatcherite past by choosing a venue, owned by a group called Renaissance, which has recently undergone a refurbishment so thoroughgoing that its PR brochure speaks of the "reincarnation of a landmark".

In front of an audience of hand-picked young, and visually inoffensive, supporters Mr Howard accused the Prime Minister of "already secretly grinning" about a third election victory and warned voters of Labour's "smirking politics".

Whether or not Tony Blair heard, as he left Downing Street to address the cameras his demeanour was brisk and his delivery clipped. He spoke in a burst of staccato phrases, each just a few words long.


More: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=626855

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