Spotted: One newly elected MP spending too much time in Westminster

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Spotted: One newly elected MP spending too much time in Westminster

By the founding editor | Tue 3rd October 2006 - 7:36 am

There is a Lib Dem MP who I keep passing come out of stores in Victoria Street, just up the road from Parliament.

Two things.

You’re in your first term. Your majority isn’t huge. During recess, you should not be spending so much time in Westminster. It’ll still be there when you get back (V for Vendetta permitting) from opening shows and kissing babies and, you know, actually doing some casework.
What are you buying in Boots that needs you to go in apparently daily in the early evening? The Shapers food is all stale by then.

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One Comment

Alex Foster 14th Oct '06 - 2:17am

Maybe they’re going in for supplies to, erm, help out with aspiring PPCs.

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