Summary
A former Labour minister said UK party politics is 'incredibly weak' and urgently needs to be 'reinvented'. Speaking as Britain's three major parties face scrutiny over the cash-for-peerages affair, Denis MacShane also said 'extremists and nationalists' were the only ones flourishing as key elections in Wales, Scotland and English local government approach.
In an interview with parliamentary insiders' publication The House Magazine, the ex-Foreign Office minister said, 'I actually think there is a strong case for saying that politics is not exclusively about government - that it is about political democracy.See the full content of this document
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Political Democracy in the Uk Is 'Incredibly Weak'
'While I think we have got a very good Government and very good ministers, political democracy in this country is incredibly weak.
'Whether it is ...See the full content of this document
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