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10 Most Recent Press Articles
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Written by Editorial on Tue 2nd Jun 2009
Labour will do badly this Thursday, in local and European elections, and deserves to do badly. Can anyone who shares ideals of progress and reform summon up anything more than sullen tolerance of the party at the moment? The expenses scandal has hit the Tories deeply too, but a week in which the chancellor (a decent and busy man) finds himself writing cheques to his own department to repay accommodation claims cannot be anything other than depressing. The prime minister made a simple statement yesterday, "I am in the best position to clean up the political system," he told the BBC. That promise has not been matched by action. Today the government will set out plans for the constitution. Voters ought to ask why it has taken so long, and how serious the commitment to change is.
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Read "Local and European elections: Thursday's choice" in full (678 words).
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Written by Decca Aitkenhead meets Nick Clegg and published in Guardian - G2 on Mon 1st Jun 2009
Politicians' nicknames are seldom flattering, but the joke going round Westminster for the last year about "Invisible Clegg" had seemed particularly cruel - chiefly on account of ringing true. When we met a fortnight ago, at Waterloo station, I'm pretty sure I was the only person on the concourse to recognise him - and on the train journey to his home in south-west London, he drew not so much as a flicker of interest from other passengers. For the leader of a third party struggling to make an impact, invisibility is an ominous quality.
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Read "'I've seen enough of my predecessors being led up the garden path and then disappointed' " in full (2480 words).
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Written by By Suzanne Moore and published in Daily Mail on Mon 1st Jun 2009
Something is missing, something it's difficult to put your finger on. Public anger and even hysteria about MPs' expenses is all around us. At least this is what the media keep telling us. But are you feeling it? Or am I sleepwalking through a revolution? Well it is half-term, so it's just possible that I am.
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Read "The great unwashed are vaguely annoyed. They need stirring" in full (714 words).
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Written by Vince Cable - Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman and published in Mail on Sunday on Sun 31st May 2009
The future of Britain's car industry now seems a sideshow compared with the sordid details of the Great Expenses Scandal. One MP's claim for refurbishing his servants' quarters and another's creative approach to family living arrangements fan the flames of public indignation. But my worry is that Parliament fiddles while the economy burns.
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Read "It's time to get personal... just go Mr Darling" in full (817 words).
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Written by Editorial and published in The Observer, on Sun 31st May 2009
Usually it is lack of public interest in politics that sabotages European and local elections. But this week's polls suffer from the opposite problem. Waves of outrage over the expenses scandal are washing over the country, thrusting other issues aside.
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Read "On Europe, one party is showing the way" in full (701 words).
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Written by Jennifer Ivers and published in Derbyshire Tomes on Wed 20th May 2009
WEST Derbyshire MP Patrick McLoughlin's expenses have been made public this week with payments including £3,000 towards new windows and thousands more for redecoration work on his second home.
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Read "MP defends his expenses claims" in full (477 words).
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