What’s this? Yet another delay to the publication of ministers’ private interests? Yep, and this time it’s because some of the “new minsters” introduced during the last reshuffle have – according to the Times’s source – “required quite a bit of investigation”. The Times adds 2 + 2 together and comes up with Peter Mandelson; who’s “declared the bare minimum in a voluntary entry to the Lords Register of Interests.
Peter Hoskin
Here’s to a transparent 2009

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