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Which politicians were most talked about this year?
www.newstatesman.com
[New Statesman (blog)] - Apart from Watson, the most talked-about backbenchers include Nadine Dorries (41), David Laws (42), Douglas Carswell (43), Dominic Raab (45), Louise Mensch (46) and Priti Patel (49) -- all of whom performed better than half of the shadow cabinet.
EU demands £25bn lifeline from the UK
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - Douglas Carswell, the Conservative MP for Clacton, said: “George Osborne has spent 20 months going along with the bail-out and borrow consensus. “It has cost this country billions of pounds in liabilities which dwarf all the austerity measures.
MPs Found Guilty Of 'Serious Wrongdoing' Face Recall Elections
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
[Huffington Post UK] - But Tory MP Douglas Carswell said the plans were "all very well" but were not really about "real recall". "What real recall is about is trusting the people and trusting the judgement of the people to decide whether to recall an MP, this is about
John Rentoul: Any PM would have done as Cameron did
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - Not being sure about the front-page adulation of the Daily Mail ("The day he put Britain first"), or the teenage fandom of prominent sceptics ("incredibly, incredibly exciting", Douglas Carswell MP), I took the precaution of speaking to one of the less
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