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...leaving Monday's meeting with the Prime Minister, one MP lamented missing "10 minutes of Coronation Street". Just like the popular British soap opera, the saga over Brown's future looks set to run and run. - With reporting by Catherine Mayer / London...
...been quick to point to the low turnout as a reason the European Parliament vote shouldn't be seen as a test for the upcoming federal elections. "I don't think you can reach any conclusions when the turnout for the European elections was so low," says Social Democrat MP Sebastian Edathy. "It's a different picture in the federal elections, when we normally have a bigger turnout of 70%-80%." Nevertheless, Edathy admits his party failed to reach out to its traditional supporters. "The SPD failed to mobilize its voters," he says. "But that is often the problem with...
...Although Cameron's response to the public outrage has been deft, his own party has suffered collateral damage. He lost his senior adviser, Andrew MacKay, over revelations that MacKay and his MP wife submitted overlapping claims for their housing. Tory grandee Douglas Hogg announced today that he will stand down at the next election, after billing the public purse for maintenance of his moated Lincolnshire mansion. And there's evidence that all three main parties - Labour, Conservatives (Tory) and Liberal Democrats - could feel the backlash against Westminster's culture of venality at the European and local elections scheduled for June...
...Valery Ryazansky, a United Russia Duma MP and a chief supporter of the bill, said on Thursday he hoped the law would appear before the Duma before June 22 - Russia's Day of Remembrance and Mourning. "Those who attempt to interpret the outcome of World War II, to turn everything upside down, to represent those who liberated countries from the Nazi invaders as subjugators" will be punished, he said...
...East London. At a more serious level, while business, civil society and the press provide far more of a check on South Africa's government than they do in, say, Zimbabwe, the party's critics see the same bad underlying dynamics at work. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC MP who resigned in 2001 in protest at the way his party was frustrating an investigation into a corrupt $5 billion arms agreement (the same deal from which Zuma was alleged to have benefited), says the last few years have seen a "regression in Africa's proudest democracy that seeps into some...