He left the country in 2008 under the shadow of impeachment after losing power in elections.

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Britain's over-centralised tax system, he says, currently means that locals receive no benefit from living in the shadow of airports, power stations or railway lines.

ECONOMIST: The planning takeover

One of the things that went missing in the shadow of that volcanic dust was a sense of human power.

ECONOMIST: Disasters are about people and planning, not nature��s pomp

The shadow system enables an orderly transition of power in the event that fortunes shift at a general election.

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What he has not done yet, and what he must do now, is to convey a clear idea of what he wants to do with the power that, in Mr Blair's shadow, he coveted for so long.

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