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Tory MPs to pay back £250,000

Tory MPs to pay back £250,000 Conservative MPs are to pay back another £125,000 in expenses as a result of the party's scrutiny panel's re…

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Iraq Inquiry

It is almost two months since British troops lowered the Union Jack at their base in Basra and yesterday Gordon Brown made the historic ste…

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Speakers Hustings

The candidates for the next speaker set out their candidacies for the role we ranked them on expenses and transparency Bercow, Dhanda an…

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Should the House of Commons be downsized?

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, for a cut of more than 25 per cent in the number of MPs. David Cameron has already proposed a 10 p…

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3 Oct 27
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Baroness Scotland - position untenable?

Baroness Scotland, the government's chief legal adviser who oversees criminal prosecutions in England and Wales, helped take the legislatio…

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1 Sep 24
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Should MPs have Second Jobs?

Labour MP Howard Stoate has said he will quit at the next election because new second job rules mean he will no longer be able to practice…

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1 Aug 16
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Baby P murderers named - 'mob' rule?

This is a bit of a different discussion today completely unrelated to politics. The couple responsible for the death of 17-month-old Baby P…

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1 Aug 16
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Case to strengthen whislteblowing act

Does the recent case of MOD press officer John Salisbury Baker officer call for a rethink of the Whistleblowing act? Where as a Press Offi…

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0 Aug 5
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Iraq Inquiry

It is almost two months since British troops lowered the Union Jack at their base in Basra and yesterday Gordon Brown made the historic ste…

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7 Jul 30
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Alan Johnson more relaxed on terror?

The new Home Secretary Alan Johnson clearly had doubts on the 42-day terror detention bill that his predecessor spent trying to get through…

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0 Jul 15
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Redwood on the "Miserable" Expenses Bill

John Redwood (Con-Wokingham) has a good post up on the misbegotten expenses bill currently being rushed through Parliament: Yesterday we d…

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1 Jul 7
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Gordon's crippled clean-up bill

Brown's hastily drawn-up bill to sort out the expenses crises has had another clause rejected in the Commons. One can only hope that it imp…

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0 Jul 2
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Tory MPs to pay back £250,000

Tory MPs to pay back £250,000 Conservative MPs are to pay back another £125,000 in expenses as a result of the party's scrutiny panel's re…

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0 Jun 25
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