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Tony Koutsoumbos

Opinion: Come back Nad! A layman’s guide to public engagement

By Tony Koutsoumbos | Tue 27th November 2012 - 3:52 pm

Nadine Dorries has been unfairly judged. In fact she should not be judged at all. We have been so busy arguing whether she has brought herself and Parliament into disrepute by flying out to Australia to share a platform with B-list celebrities and eat Marsupial genitalia, that we seem to have forgotten all about the original question she was trying to answer: how can MPs and indeed all public officials of every office, from mayors to parish councillors, reach out and re-connect with the public?

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