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LibLink: Simon Hughes – Being a constituency MP

By NewsHound | Wed 17th March 2010 - 8:45 pm

Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free website, Simon Hughes – Lib Dem MP for North Southwark and Bermondsey since 1983 – writes about his experiences as a constituency member of Parliament, and how a good and effective democracy is under-pinned by approachable MPs who deliver top-quality personal responses.

(Peter Black recently blogged a letter in the Guardian from someone whose train journey was disrupted by Simon’s assiduous work ethic).

Here’s an excerpt:

It is a seven-day, 80-hour a week job being a constituency MP. Every day by phone, letter, email or simply being stopped in the street, people ask for

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