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	<description>Jim Pickard and Alex Barker share the latest news and gossip from the UK's political scene</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Burnham the New Labour Puritan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/burnham-the-new-labour-puritan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Barker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoyed Richard Revees&#8217; blast against New Labour&#8217;s puritan streak in today&#8217;s FT. The Demos director&#8217;s main target is Andy Burnham&#8217;s plans to ban smoking in doorways.
It is not yet clear how the doorway rule would operate in practice&#8230;.Perhaps we could mark-out six-yard boxes, around the doors, like the one around goals in football (Mr Burnham [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT video: Sants quits as FSA chief</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/ft-video-sants-quits-as-fsa-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/ft-video-sants-quits-as-fsa-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brooke Masters,  chief regulation correspondent, talks about the future of regulation in the UK.
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		<title>The micro-detailed process of arranging the leaders&#8217; TV debate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/the-micro-detailed-process-of-arranging-the-leaders-tv-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/the-micro-detailed-process-of-arranging-the-leaders-tv-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[George W Bush]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[television debate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
There has been an enormous amount of to-ing and fro-ing in recent weeks between the three parties and the three broadcasters hosting April&#8217;s pre-election TV debates; some of which I alluded to last week.*
Philip Webster has a good piece this morning on Brown taking soundings from Joel Benenson, who advised Obama and Biden ahead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two more Steve Hilton strategy bulletins</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/two-more-steve-hilton-strategy-bulletins/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/two-more-steve-hilton-strategy-bulletins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Hilton&#8217;s flow of thought has been blissfully uninterrupted by the fuss over his strategy bulletins. The Tory barefoot sage is still on a mission to re-educate senior Tory MPs on the importance of &#8220;people power&#8221; and gardening. But, as you can see from the last two strategy emails below, his missives have been toned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cameron takes the lady freemasons to tea</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/cameron-takes-the-lady-freemasons-to-tea/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/cameron-takes-the-lady-freemasons-to-tea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s an interesting story to be told today about lobbyists gaining access to the Commons by MPs hiring out rooms to entertain them. The authorities have released the full list of &#8220;banqueting office functions&#8221; booked from 2004 to 2009. (To be fair many of the guests are charities etc)
But for now it&#8217;s mainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over-compensation: Who paid more than they were asked?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/the-list-of-over-compensation-who-paid-more-than-asked/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/the-list-of-over-compensation-who-paid-more-than-asked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Thomas Legg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alex spotted that Sir John Butterfill paid back £17,478 despite being asked to pay only £2,364.
Who else has appeared to have gone overboard in an attempt to clear their name? This list is not comprehensive but will give you an idea&#8230;.*
Phil Hope has paid back a stunning £42,674&#8230;..10 times the £4,365 demanded of him.
Keith Vaz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What about Morley, Chaytor and Devine?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/what-about-morley-chaytor-and-devine/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/what-about-morley-chaytor-and-devine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Elliot Morley has no issues&#8221;
&#8220;David Chaytor has no issues&#8221;
&#8220;Jim Devine has no issues&#8221;
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		<title>Peter Lilley has had entire £41,057 demand struck off</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/peter-lilley-has-had-entire-41057-demand-struck-off/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/peter-lilley-has-had-entire-41057-demand-struck-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Thomas Legg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want proof of disagreement between Legg and Kennedy here it is. I won&#8217;t go into the details of Peter Lilley&#8217;s mortgage claims - too complex. But Kennedy has struck off the entire £41k claim, saying:
&#8220;I am at a loss to understand why the review should state that what you did was not permitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should a cleaner cost an arm and a legg?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/should-a-cleaner-cost-an-arm-and-a-legg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/should-a-cleaner-cost-an-arm-and-a-legg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Thomas Legg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Legg first started seving MPs with big bills, one of the big complaints was over the &#8220;arbitrary&#8221; limit he put on cleaning expenses. One MP told the Guardian: &#8220;If you employ a cleaner for five to six hours a week, pay a decent wage and pay national insurance, there are consequences.&#8221;
Well, as this excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost of Legg review is greater than all repayments combined</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/cost-of-legg-review-is-greater-than-all-repayments-combined/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/02/cost-of-legg-review-is-greater-than-all-repayments-combined/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Pickard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting piece of maths for you. Legg&#8217;s repayments come to £1.3m. But this has been reduced by £185,000 by the Sir Paul Kennedy review&#8230;..making £1.12m.
But the cost of hiring the former mandarin and his entourage has come to £1.16m.
Thus, by a whisker, the review has cost the taxpayers an extra £40k or so.
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