Alex Hilton: Tories forced to show their hand
18 Jun 2009 | by Alex Hilton
Behind the Labour infighting and parliamentary scandal, a new political pattern emerges.
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Behind the Labour infighting and parliamentary scandal, a new political pattern emerges.
The public is angry. Parliament is full of MPs desperate for a suitable catharsis so they can cling on to their jobs and convince the public that the problem of parliamentary expenses has been fixed.
In recent months, a phone call to the Labour press office enquiring about Derek Draper's role in the party would have elicited the standard response:
I have been campaigning in elections since 1983, though being eight years old at the time, I was not as finely attuned to the political nuances then as I am now. That said, this election so far has not had much in the way of nuance.
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