The fifth anniversary of the Daily Telegraph exposures about MPs’ expenses once again brings to mind that, like so many other cases involving the Establishment, it was the little people that got done over while the real culprits escaped free. No-one can condone the offences for which half a dozen lesser known MPs were […]
Posts Tagged ‘Maria Miller’
Even with MPs, it’s only the small fry who get collared for fiddling their expenses
May 11th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.
Grant Shapps: four times asked to back Maria Miller and four times declines
Apr 6th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Support for Maria Miller within the Tory party is disappearing fast. Take the Tory Chair, Grant Shapps for example. Interviewed this morning by John Pienaar on BBC Radio 5 Live (available for 7 days here, with quote below starting at 12:50), Shapps was asked four times whether he backed Maria Miller, whom Michael Meacher called […]
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Tories are handling the women’s vote just nicely
Oct 8th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.As the Tories assemble today for their conference, in substantial disarray of their own making, nowhere have they screwed up so conclusively as in their policies towards women. The new Tory Minister for Women, Maria Miller, has just told us she’s keen to lower the abortion limit from 24 to 20 weeks. At least that’s […]
