Claudia Rosett

The taxpayer is being stung so this Lord can live in Admiralty House

Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, was the most prestigious recruit to Gordon Brown’s ministry of all the talents. But this appointment might be about to come back and embarrass the Prime Minister with controversy brewing over the former UN deputy secretary-general’s taxpayer funded accommodation.

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Claudia Rosett
Claudia Rosett is an adjunct fellow with the Hudson Institute and a foreign-policy fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum

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