Today’s newspapers do not make happy reading for Maria Miller – or David Cameron. After informing the press that it was ‘time to draw a line’ under Miller’s expenses, he ought to have known what to expect. The Sunday Times splashes with ‘MPs can’t be trusted on expenses’ while the Sunday Telegraph quotes an anonymous minister saying ‘Maria must go’. The Mail on Sunday has commissioned some polling, to the effect that 80 per cent of the public want her out of the cabinet. According to the Survation polling, 82 per cent of Conservative voters want her to be sacked, while two thirds of Tories think she should resign from Parliament:
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Senior Tories have been doing the broadcast rounds this morning to offer their opinions. Iain Duncan Smith backed more independent regulation of MPs on the Andrew Marr Show while defending the beleaguered minister ‘I am supportive of Maria because if we are not careful we end up with a witch-hunt of somebody’.
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