I'm sure you will at some stage have sat in a lesson, lecture or sermon and wished that the speaker would just shut up and sit down. I seriously hope the supporters of David Maclean's Private Member's Bill feel the same way right now, and just as fervently hope that the Bill's opponents manage to talk it out for the requisite 5 hours of debate (ending at 2:30pm BST).
It's only a day since Gordon Brown, in a speech celebrating his unopposed nomination as Tony Blair's successor, headlined by promising to "build trust", based on "a more open form of dialogue with citizens and politicians".
It would be a great start, then, for his party to connive with the Conservative opposition in passing a Bill which exempts parliamentarians from the Freedom of Information Act passed by the government he is about to lead.
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