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Politicians and lying

Lord Soley

‘All politicians are liars’. Or are they? It’s a difficult pitch to defend in the present climate but in my long experience I think most politicians are no more or less truthful then the average person. What a politician says is very often recorded either by the media or by Hansard. So unless you are…

Another confused article….

Lord Norton

I read another newspaper article yesterday that appeared to lack any grasp of parliamentary history.  In the Evening Standard, the City Editor Chris Blackhurst wrote that he was not certain a Conservative Government would take decisive action, even with a large majority.  He went on: “I’m beginning to think a hung Parliament might be the…