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Margaret Beckett should have been sacked over the subsidies fiasco which cost farmers up to pounds 22.5 million and left some on the verge of bankruptcy, an influential Commons committee said today.
MPs attacked Tony Blair's decision to promote Mrs Beckett from Environment Food and Rural Affairs Secretary to Foreign Secretary, one of the most senior jobs in British government.See the full content of this document
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Beckett Should Have Been Given the Boot ; Politics
They said Ministers should be given a code of conduct spelling out they are expected to resign if they preside over failure. Today's report is...
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