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Facts, Rats and Rents

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How to Stop Politicians Lying

In the last year, I think we've asked 25 to correct the record and five of them have done it. The House of Commons has started an inquiry into whether its corrections processes actually work. And hopefully that inquiry will report this year. There's a new expectation on politicians to get things right and correct the record when they don't. But even in Hansard, if you've said something at the dispatch box, there's no scope for you to correct something you've said. We say, correct your mistakes when you make them, right? We tell that to six-year-olds, and we should have their expectations of MPP.

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