He codified internal guidelines about Whitehall’s relationship to select committees, and the Cabinet Office cat Ossie was named after him
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He codified internal guidelines about Whitehall’s relationship to select committees, and the Cabinet Office cat Ossie was named after him
He codified internal guidelines about Whitehall’s relationship to select committees, and the Cabinet Office cat Ossie was named after him
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A farmer from Essex, he became a junior minister at Maff and was later one of the ‘saints’ in the parliamentary expenses scandal

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