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==Career==

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Duncan's career started with a stint working for [[Marc Rich]], the oil mogul who was indited on criminal charges by the US federal government for tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He only escaped prison by going into exile from America. Mr Rich, was described in an obituary as an "infamous white-collar criminal". <ref>https://www.occrp.org/en/history-of-occrp/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/2022-marc-rich-oil-tycoon-dies-at-78</ref>

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Duncan's career started with a stint working for [[Marc Rich]], the oil mogul who was indited on criminal charges by the US federal government for tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He only escaped prison by going into exile from America. Mr Rich, was described in an obituary as an "infamous white-collar criminal." <ref>https://www.occrp.org/en/history-of-occrp/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/2022-marc-rich-oil-tycoon-dies-at-78</ref>

==Dubious Property Dealing==

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==Failed Leadership Bid==

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In 2005 he made a bid for leadership of the Conservative party, and blamed his failure on the "Tory Taliban" implying that it was his homosexuality that was the problem. By comparing the entirely peaceful, non-violent and socially responsible pro-family lobby in the Conservative Party to the violent and murderous Taliban, he publicly insulted his own party. He showed no reasoning to justify applying the name "Tombstone" to the Conservative pro-family group "Cornerstone". He alluded to homosexuality as a private behavior that somehow had no impact on other people or society (sic) which certainly gives us a true measure of his level of intelligence.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/jul/18/conservatives.uk</ref>

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In 2005 he made a bid for leadership of the Conservative party, and blamed his failure on the "Tory Taliban" implying that it was his homosexuality that was the problem. By comparing the entirely peaceful, non-violent and socially responsible pro-family lobby in the Conservative Party to the violent and murderous Taliban, he publicly insulted his own party. He showed no reasoning to justify applying the name "Tombstone" to the Conservative pro-family group "Cornerstone." He alluded to homosexuality as a private behavior that somehow had no impact on other people or society (sic) which certainly gives us a true measure of his level of intelligence.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/jul/18/conservatives.uk</ref>

==Expenses Scandal==

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==Death Threats Against Christians==

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Duncan assumes a smiling, sunny image in public in the best PR tradition but a different personality flashes out from time to time. In April 2009, when appearing on the TV comedy show "Have I Got News For You", he shocked the audience by saying that he would kill an American beauty queen Carrie Prejean who had, when asked to give her opinion on marriage, stated very civilly that she considered it was between a "man and a woman". Duncan's "joke" about murdering her even shocked other contestants on the show.

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Duncan assumes a smiling, sunny image in public in the best PR tradition but a different personality flashes out from time to time. In April 2009, when appearing on the TV comedy show "Have I Got News For You," he shocked the audience by saying that he would kill an American beauty queen Carrie Prejean who had, when asked to give her opinion on marriage, stated very civilly that she considered it was between a "man and a woman." Duncan's "joke" about murdering her even shocked other contestants on the show.

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Many viewers complained to the BBC, the broadcasting watchdog OfCom and even to the police. The incident was reported in the press. “Gay Tory Frontbencher Faces Police Probe after Miss Universe Death Threat Live on TV”. <ref> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173776/Gay-Tory-frontbencher-faces-police-probe-Miss-Universe-death-''threat-live-TV.html</ref>

''The Guardian'', a socialist and strongly pro-LGBT newspaper, excused his behavior by insisting it was a joke. Yet under UK law a death threat against a homosexual person for any reason would be a criminal offence carrying a jail term.

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Duncan also demonstrated his skills in intellectual debate by calling Miss Prejean, a qualified teacher, a "silly bitch".

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Duncan also demonstrated his skills in intellectual debate by calling Miss Prejean, a qualified teacher, a "silly bitch."

==Views on Drugs==

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==Views on Taxation==

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In 2016 Duncan reacted with anger and rudeness to the Panama Papers scandal, press exposure of tax-avoidance by the super-rich including the family of David Cameron. He snapped that the very idea of full disclosure of politicians' tax affairs would deter "high achievers" like himself from going into parliament and would fill the House of Commons with "low achievers". <ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/panama-papers-sir-alan-duncan-mp-speaking-in-defence-of-david-cameron-criticised-for-decrying-low-a6979826.html</ref><ref>https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-tory-alan-duncan-cope-7771314</ref>

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In 2016 Duncan reacted with anger and rudeness to the Panama Papers scandal, press exposure of tax-avoidance by the super-rich including the family of David Cameron. He snapped that the very idea of full disclosure of politicians' tax affairs would deter "high achievers" like himself from going into parliament and would fill the House of Commons with "low achievers." <ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/panama-papers-sir-alan-duncan-mp-speaking-in-defence-of-david-cameron-criticised-for-decrying-low-a6979826.html</ref><ref>https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-tory-alan-duncan-cope-7771314</ref>

One commentator asked "How does inheriting a large sum of money make you a "high achiever?" <ref>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wed-all-like-be-high-achievers-most-us-tax-gets-way-1554451</ref>

==Policies in Foreign and Commonwealth Office==

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Under Duncan, in 2017, the UK FCO issued the Wilton Report urging the British government to use every method of coercion to impose the LGBT agenda on foreign countries contrary to the will of the people and their own parliamentary democracies. The report ignores the issue of the negative health outcomes of such policies, denounces Christian morality as "hateful", blames it for imposing "heteropatriarchy" (i.e. natural behavior) and calls for "direct action" to implement their agenda when changes of legislation are not forthcoming. This extremism, which is completely against all the traditional policies of the Conservative Party and the democratic principles of the Commonwealth, has met with strong protests and a petition was set up on the internet demanding that the government reject it. <ref>http://www.christianconcern.com/our-concerns/freedom-of-speech/foreign-office-agency-says-biblical-morality-is-hateful</ref>

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Under Duncan, in 2017, the UK FCO issued the Wilton Report urging the British government to use every method of coercion to impose the LGBT agenda on foreign countries contrary to the will of the people and their own parliamentary democracies. The report ignores the issue of the negative health outcomes of such policies, denounces Christian morality as "hateful," blames it for imposing "heteropatriarchy" (i.e. natural behavior) and calls for "direct action" to implement their agenda when changes of legislation are not forthcoming. This extremism, which is completely against all the traditional policies of the Conservative Party and the democratic principles of the Commonwealth, has met with strong protests and a petition was set up on the internet demanding that the government reject it. <ref>http://www.christianconcern.com/our-concerns/freedom-of-speech/foreign-office-agency-says-biblical-morality-is-hateful</ref>

==Altruistic, Philanthropic or Publicly Beneficial Achievements==

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