Taking the temperature of the British political elite 3: When grubby is the order of the day...

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 503-513

  Kenny, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 67651233944     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: 14602482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsp015     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. The author is currently a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy. He is writing here in a personal capacity.
2. Peter Oborne, The Triumph of the Political Class (Simon and Schuster, 2007).
3. The taunt used by blogger Guido Fawkes to signal the imminent publication of the email exchange between McBride and Derek Draper.
4. M. Castells, The Power of Identity: The Information Age; Economy, Society and Culture (Blackwell, 1997).
5. Both were subsequently found guilty of breaching the Upper House's Code of Conduct and suspended for six months.
6. Mandelson, interviewed on The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 30 April 2009.
7. See 'A New Politics', The Guardian, 21 May 2009.
8. N. Clegg, 'Voters' trust in democracy is shattered. We must restore it', The Observer, 17 May 2009.
9. See for example 'The House of Commons can't fix broken politics, only the public can, argues ippr', Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009; available at: http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=3500.