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Matthew Taylor
Now we have decided that most, if not all, MPs are money grubbing fraudsters who only ever got into politics so they could buy themselves soft furnishings from John Lewis subsidised from the public purse it is time for some proper upstanding citizens to put themselves forward. It may be that, as Norman Tebbit advocates, we will abandon the constraints of a system dominated by major parties in favour of the much more interesting niche systems of Israel, Italy or India. But in case Parties do persist, I thought it might be helpful to explain what, in my experience, is involved in becoming a Labour MP.
