Peter Hoskin

Byers, Hewitt and Hoon suspended from the Labour party…

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…according to the Beeb just now.  And if you watched tonight’s Dispatches programme, you’ll know exactly why.

Nick Robinson comments that the “Labour leadership” will delight in “taking revenge” on three figures who have ruffled Brown’s feathers on multiple occasions – so it continues to look like backbiting and politicking will take priority over geniune reform.  A grubby Parliament just got considerably grubbier.

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