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17 September 1998 Edition

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17 September 1998

Thanks to the New Worker newspaper for the following, headlined ``Jobless scroungers'':

Sixteen months after the last general election, over 40 former Tory MPs are still unemployed. They are complaining that in the old days their party helped former MPs who fell on hard times.

``The modern party is a heartless brute,'' one former grandee said. ``It's done nothing at all. It seems we... Free article

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