Andrew Lansley Receives A Supportive 'Fist Bump' From David Cameron

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The Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 22/02/2012 14:37 Updated: 22/02/2012 15:29

With Ed Miliband going for the coalition over the NHS during prime minister's questions, health secretary Andrew Lansley could be forgiven for being anxious as to whether David Cameron supported him.

However any worries must have been put to rest, for now, after the embattled minister received an unequivocal sign of support: a prime ministerial fist-bump.

No. 10 sources quipped that "It's clearly a positive sign".

Despite all the furore and criticism over the NHS bill, Lansley still has his boss' support. For now.

The PM's fist-bump wasn't the first time male politicians got chummy with each other. In the spirit of their seemingly unshakeable bond, we put together a collection of the great political bromances.

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Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne have known each other for a long time.

Clegg and Huhne fought for the LibDem leadership in 2007. This competition culminated in the embarrassing exchange on TV over Huhne's office putting out a briefing against "Calamity Clegg".

Clegg said he had known Huhne for "as long as I've known almost anybody else in politics". He also attended Huhne's wedding to Vicky Pryce.

It was Huhne's marriage to Pryce, of course, that led to his ultimate downfall as Energy Secretary. Now Clegg is rid of Huhne in government, who knows what Huhne may do on the back-benches...
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With Ed Miliband going for the coalition over the NHS during prime minister's questions, health secretary Andrew Lansley could be forgiven for being anxious as to whether David Cameron supported him. ...
With Ed Miliband going for the coalition over the NHS during prime minister's questions, health secretary Andrew Lansley could be forgiven for being anxious as to whether David Cameron supported him. ...
 
 
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15:57 on 02/11/2012
The decision to take us into the Common Market by Heath was pure TREASON. The police have been given all of the evidence and they still refuse to act. In that case the army, because they have sworn allegiance and to serve the Monarch MUST THEREFORE go in and arrest the Chief Constables and put them in prison for misprision of high treason.

We, the people, do not want a referendum as even that action compounds the treason. What we want is the purging of the treason that has been and continues to be committed so that we end this governance of the Queen's subjects by a foreign power, i.e. the EU, expressly forbidden under pain of death in Magna Carta. You see, we DO STILL HAVE A CONSTITUTION despite what Parliament says. This treason has gone on for far too long and it's time those who have conspired and enabled this treason, those in Westminster and Whitehall were finally charged with TREASON.
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