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John Casey, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge What we're concerned about here is the politics of greed, the revolving door in which ministers take decisions in favour of privatised companies one day, and then go and take the cream from thatprivatised company the next.
Jack Straw, Shadow Home Secretary Being wrong is one of the privileges of public life and indeed it is widely practised.
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