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Parliamentarian

The Readers' Representative Award

Since they started in 1984, the Spectator / Threadneedle Parliamentarian of the Year Awards have been, as Matthew d’Ancona puts it, “the Oscars of Westminster, the Booker Prize of our lawmakers, the Blankety Blank cheque book and pen of the political cosa nostra.”

The winners of the awards are chosen by a panel of journalists - always including the editor of The Spectator and its political editor - but this year that's set to change. For the first time, a new Reader's Representative Award is being presented. The nominations for it will come from you, the readers. All you have to do is scroll downwards and - in no more than 250 words - nominate your choice. The person can be of any party you want, a frontbencher or a backbencher and you can nominate them for whatever reason you want. The sole criteria are that the candidate has pursued the noble art of politics in what they believed to be the public interest.

Throughout October, we’ll print a selection of the best nominations in the magazine each week. Then on the first of November, the reader who has submitted the best-written nomination will be revealed. They’ll receive a bottle of champagne and two tickets to the lunch at Claridge's where the awards are announced. At those awards we'll also announce which politician received the largest number of readers' nominations and they will be presented with the Reader’s Representative award.

Closing date for entries is Monday 27 October 2008, 5pm.  Good luck!

Competion

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Further information about the prize

1. Closing date for entries is Monday 27 October 2008, 5pm.

2. The prize is two tickets to the Parliamentarian of the year awards held at Claridge’s Hotel, Brook Street, London W1 on 13th November 2008 and a bottle of champagne.

3. Travel to and from the event or accommodation is not included and is at the winners cost.

4. There is no cash alternative

5. The prize is non-transferable.

6. Prize is available to UK residents only

7. The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into

8. By Entering this competition entrants consent to The Spectator (1828) Ltd publishing all or part of the entry in The Spectator Magazine or on Spectator.co.uk

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