The Sunday political TV shows: senior Tories go AWOL

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The Sunday political TV shows: senior Tories go AWOL

By Mark Pack | Sun 1st November 2009 - 4:08 pm

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The latest round up from Jon Sopel of the best bits from today’s TV political shows is now up on the BBC website, including this observation:

If you think there’s a dearth of senior Tories from Sopel on Sunday, that’s because there is.

Could it be that with the MPs’ expenses scandal still raging, senior Conservatives had collectively decided it might be a good weekend to leave the microphones and make-up to politicians from other parties?

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One Comment

Duncan 1st Nov '09 - 10:43pm

Who cares what Tories have to say; I wanna hear from Vince Cable about the small banks idea. Sounds like Labour finally got around to reading The Storm. I wish we could cut out the middle man and have Vince setting economic policy.

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