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| Don't boycott Ashcroft |
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| Written by Gordon Prentice | |||
| Friday, 05 March 2010 15:26 | |||
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I read that three Conservative MPs on the Public Administration Select Committee are going to boycott our upcoming session on Lord Ashcroft. I hope the reports are incorrect. I like Charles Walker, Ian Liddell-Grainger and David Burrowes. We have always got on well with the Committee working as a team. They know from the discussions we have in our private sessions that the Committee doesn’t take prisoners. We have always gone after the issue. We don’t go after people for “party political point scoring”. The Committee has a Labour majority but who would know it? We roasted the Government on the so-called cash for peerages issue. We skewered former Labour ministers during our inquiry into lobbying. We supported the Equitable Life people, issuing report after critical report, condemning the Government for the position it had adopted. We said there was never a good day to bury bad news. There are countless other examples. I hope the Committee will have its full spread of Members when we inquire into the Ashcroft affair. It is, as I said yesterday, a matter which falls squarely within our terms of reference. Empty chairs may speak volumes but they cannot ask intelligent and probing questions. 
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| Last Updated on Friday, 05 March 2010 16:03 |