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Nice work if you can get it: MPs hoovering up the freebies
SOLOMON HUGHES takes a look at the Register of MPs’ Interests

THE pre-Christmas Register of MPs’ Interests shows our representatives have been pretty busy with moonlighting, side hustles and freebies.
Birmingham Labour MP Liam Byrne is a controversial figure. He was a Treasury minister before Labour lost the 2010 election.
Byrne left a note for his Tory-Lib Dem coalition replacement apologising to them because “I’m afraid there is no money” in the Treasury — it was a cack-handed joke that backfired badly, helping the Tory-led coalition justify punishing austerity measures.
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