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Squinty wrote:

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Moggy wrote:

lex-man wrote:I don't get that reference. Could you explain please?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/43565737

Theresa May said she was shocked and disappointed by the cheating in cricket and that cheating has no place in sport. But she doesn't seem to care about cheating in referendums.

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Moggy wrote:

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“I don’t understand it so we should leave”

The claims, made under parliamentary privilege on Wednesday, concerned Liam Fox, the trade secretary, and John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary.

The Conservative chair, Tom Tugendhat, called for an inquiry into the role of corrupt Russian money in the British economy in the wake of the poisoning of the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.

During the evidence session, Oliver Bullough, a journalist and author of books on Russian corruption, pointed to the fact that the trade secretary had been paid £5,700 for the Azerbaijani translation rights for his book plus more than £3,500 to attend the launch.

He said, having looked at the print run and the cover price, “there is no conceivable way this was a commercial proposition”.

Tugendhat interrupted Bullough, urging him to be very cautious, adding: “You do enjoy parliamentary privilege, but use it carefully and factually.”

Bullough then set out the cover price, print run and advance, before saying: “There may be an issue here I am not understanding, but in a Caesar’s wife way that is problematic.”

He then added that Whittingdale had accepted £3,000 to fly to Vienna. “I do not know how you spend £3,000 to fly to Vienna,” he said. The money, Bullough said, came from a Ukrainian oligarch’s foundation at the time he was battling extradition to the US on a FBI indictment.

NickSCFC wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/28/senior-tory-mps-accused-of-accepting-money-from-former-soviet-states

The claims, made under parliamentary privilege on Wednesday, concerned Liam Fox, the trade secretary, and John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary.

The Conservative chair, Tom Tugendhat, called for an inquiry into the role of corrupt Russian money in the British economy in the wake of the poisoning of the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.

During the evidence session, Oliver Bullough, a journalist and author of books on Russian corruption, pointed to the fact that the trade secretary had been paid £5,700 for the Azerbaijani translation rights for his book plus more than £3,500 to attend the launch.

He said, having looked at the print run and the cover price, “there is no conceivable way this was a commercial proposition”.

Tugendhat interrupted Bullough, urging him to be very cautious, adding: “You do enjoy parliamentary privilege, but use it carefully and factually.”

Bullough then set out the cover price, print run and advance, before saying: “There may be an issue here I am not understanding, but in a Caesar’s wife way that is problematic.”

He then added that Whittingdale had accepted £3,000 to fly to Vienna. “I do not know how you spend £3,000 to fly to Vienna,” he said. The money, Bullough said, came from a Ukrainian oligarch’s foundation at the time he was battling extradition to the US on a FBI indictment.

Moggy wrote:

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“I don’t understand it so we should leave”

Photek wrote:Edwina Curry is on my radio now telling us we should be jealous of the UK.

Photek wrote:Edwina Curry is on my radio now telling us we should be jealous of the UK.