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Moore had been a leader writer at The Daily Telegraph before Chancellor recruited him to The Spectator as political commentator.

Consequentially the paper under Moore became more political than it had been under Chancellor.

The new editor adopted an approach that was, in general, pro-Margaret Thatcher, while showing no restraint in opposing her on certain issues.

The paper called the Anglo-Irish Agreement " a fraudulent prospectus " in 1985, came out against the Single European Act, and, in 1989, criticised the handover of Hong Kong to China.

Moore wrote that if Britain failed to allow the city ’ s UK passport holders right of abode in Britain, " we shall have to confess that, for the first time in our history, we have forced Britons to be slaves.