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The Week in 60 Minutes: Ailing Biden and Tory sleaze

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I Think This Is a Decision That Was Tightly Held

MPS are baffled as to the thoght process behind this. This is yet another sign of number ten making decisions in a way which shows a striking inability to think about the political consequences, says James Boulden. It's not like there was a one off message to alert people to the problem that had been discovered. The problems is the sheer level of communication. And i think it would have been much better to have accepted the commissioner's verdict and then said, look, there are problems about the lack of an appeals process. Buti but these issues should be handled with more comports than they've been dealt with here. In this case, rather than try to reverse the judgment

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