ALAN SIMPSON offers a few pointers on dealing with the ongoing, Trump-led destruction of the norms of a rules-based international order established post-WWII
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Snouts in the trough
Profiteering while being an elected MP is a practice as old as the hills, particularly for the Tories, writes STEVEN WALKER
MASTER PROFITEER: Lloyd George in 1922
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The Morning Star publishes an edited transcript of a speech by NICOLAS MADURO GUERRA, a Venezuelan MP and son of Venezuelan President Maduro. The speech was given at the recent Voices from Venezuela event marking two months since Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on January 3
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THE recent spectacular resignation of corrupt MP Owen Paterson is only the latest in a series of scandals involving MPs shoving their snouts in the greedy trough.
The government refuses to release minutes of a phone call last spring between Paterson and the health minister Lord Bethell, which took place just days before Randox, one of the companies he worked for, got a £133 million deal to supply and analyse Covid test kits.
In 1994 news broke of a corrupt financial transaction involving the owner of Harrods Department store in London and two Tory MPs. Harrods boss Mohammad al-Fayed confirmed he paid parliamentary lobbyist Ian Greer to arrange for then MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith to table parliamentary questions on his behalf at £2,000 a time.
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