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Article: We're fighting a war to defend our way of life. So why do spin doctors use the methods of tyrants to run our own country?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2001
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Byline: MICHAEL DOBBS
EVEN by the standards we have now come to expect of a Government obsessed with spin and presentation, yesterday was a shameful day for British politics.
No fewer than three Government ministers were on the rack for deception and abuse of power. Lord Macdonald, the Cabinet Office Minister, was forced to bow his head in shame and apologise to peers for misleading them about the number of special advisers and spin doctors employed by the Government.
His office had even intimidated the Hansard reporters who wrote up his speech into amending his report and covering up the error.
At about the same time, Rural Affairs ...