Hail, Scoffing Greedsters of Today's Political Elite ; Hears Lord Falconer in Earnest Mode, Lecturing the Upper House On the Benefits of Transparency

Daily Mail (March 21, 2006)

Author: Quentin Letts

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TO the House of Bungs yesterday House of Lords, as was to hear Lord Falconer, Lord High Chancellor, Great Smug Poohbah, insist that nobody had sneaked into that place by dint of fix or favour.

Lord Falconer, lest you forget, is Tony Blair's old flatmate. What a gleaming example he is to us all.

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Hail, Scoffing Greedsters of Today's Political Elite ; Hears Lord Falconer in Earnest Mode, Lecturing the Upper House On the Benefits of Transparency

Along the Government front bench sat Lord Sainsbury, a dim guppy fish but a golden one. He has been worth several million quid to New Labour. Also in the House: Lord Drayson, who ha...

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