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A former Labour minister has criticised the police probe into the loans for peerages row as “absurd”, saying the sale of honours has always gone on and always will. Frank Field said although political parties selling peerages was a “nuisance”, the public had tolerated it for 200 years and most would not consider Scotland Yard’s… Read more »
The drift into the centre ground by British political parties has created a “supercynical” electorate who no longer see the point in voting, Lord Saatchi has warned. The former Conservative chairman, who also led the party’s advertising campaigns under Margaret Thatcher, warned politicians nowadays would “say anything to get elected”. Although he does not mention… Read more »
