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WELCOMED WITH OPEN ARMS...
The Ministry of Defence is the department that loses the most top officials through the revolving door into highly paid jobs with suppliers.

SPECIAL BREWIS
An adviser to home secretary Shabana Mahmood has left for a lobbying firm and promptly delivering a less than flattering analysis of the government.

POLITICAL PLATFORMS
Ahead of the local elections next month, there is still no way to know on social media what is being advertised to whom and by which political parties.

AFFORDABILITY CHEQUE
Sotheby's International Realty donated £100,000 to Reform UK last August – but how was the heavily indebted property agency able to afford it?

FAMILY LINCS
Is Reform's in-house singer Dame Andrea Jenkyns eyeing up a run as MP, just a year after becoming mayor of Greater Lincolnshire?

CALLED TO ORDURE
The public accounts committee had to suffer through a session with two executives from parliament's Godot-ish restoration and renewal project.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS
Facing daily reminders of its lack of energy independence, and the prospect of a major spike in fuel prices, the EU is encouraging member states to go nuclear.

HOUSING NEWS
Simon Dudley's ill-chosen comments on Grenfell got him sacked as Reform UK's housing spokesman, but his words highlight a deeper problem.

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Driven aside
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Star's war
Warwick Davis versus the Daily Mail

Vice ring
JD Vance's worldwide failure tour

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