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Select Committees

Did Being an MP Really Tip the Scales for Louise Mensch?

Hanna Flint | Posted 07.10.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Select Committees, Theresa May, Corby and East Northamptonshire, Twitter, Conservatives, Fiona MacTaggart, Mp, David Cameron, UK Politics, Deborah-Orr, Louise Mensch Resigns, Louise Mensch, Carole Midgley, Parliament, UK Politics News
Hanna Flint

Louise Mensch playing the 'kids card' and relinquishing her Conservative tenure as the representative for Corby and East Northamptonshire makes for interesting news in a fortnight filled with Olympic success and British pride. And yet, I can't help but raise a cynical eyebrow at the ambitious blonde's reasoning for this ill-timed decision.

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This is Why We Need Select Committees

Julian Dobson | Posted 05.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: UK Parliament, Policy, Select Committee, Regeneration, Regeneration Inquiry, UK, Select Committees, UK Politics, Urban Regeneration, UK Politics News
Julian Dobson

As someone who submitted evidence to the committee's inquiry, I'm glad they see both the need for a real strategy to tackle deprivation and the inadequacy of the government's response (in England, anyway: the Scots and Welsh are more enlightened).

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Q&A: Key Issues As Murdochs And Brooks Face Hearing

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 17.09.2011 | UK
Read More: Select Committees, Rebekah Brooks, Paul Farrelly, Phone Hacking, News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Stephens, News International, James Murdoch, John Whittingdale, UK News

Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks are due to appear before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday over phone hacking and corruption alleg...

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