Mr & Mrs Keen, also known as Mr & Mrs Expenses, are getting away with repaying a mere £1,500. MPs have come up with the excuse that officials condoned their thieving. Of course it never occurred to Mr and Mrs Pig that their claims might be against the letter and spirit of the rules. Perish the thought that a minister should have the brain or imagination to consider such a pos...
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The leaders of the three largest political groups in the European Parliament have joined forces to call for stronger economic governance in the EU.
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TESCO and Whyte & Mackay have been asked to re-appear at the Scottish Parliament following claims over mistakes in their evidence about minimum alcohol pricing.
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LIBERAL Democrat leader Nick Clegg has laid out the conditions for a deal with either Labour or the Conservatives in the event of a hung parliament.
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Nick Clegg's new list of the demands he would make for Liberal Democrat support in a hung parliament reads like old-fashioned fence-sitting
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A female pornographic film director is selected as the Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate for Gravesham, Kent.
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Party faithful could have key role in determining policy if the general election produces a hung parliament. The constitutions give left-leaning activists considerable clout, particularly when it comes to deals with minority governments
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Daniel Kawczynski is Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham. Here he shares the letter he has written this week to John Lyon, the the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, seeking an investigation into a Labour MP allegedly using parliamentary facilities for...
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The country's first female director of adult films has been selected as a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate.
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Telegraph 1 day ago (via telegraph.co.uk)
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich secured a majority coalition in parliament today (11 March), which voted in a new government headed by his ally Mykola Azarov, a former finance minister.
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