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Don’s Dark Arts: Foster reveals the secrets of being a Chief Whip

By NewsHound | Sun 7th June 2015 - 11:15 am

The House Magazine has produced a Westminster Survival Guide for New MPs. One of the first articles is by former Liberal Democrat Chief Whip who gives some humorous, we think, advice on how to deal with your whips. It’s an article that seeks to take no prisoners from the start:

How to deal with the whips? You don’t have to. The whips deal with you.

He talks about how the job of being a whip has changed over the years. Gone are the days when a whip could hold something in your private life over you.

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