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22 December 2010updated 27 Sep 2015 2:02am

The indiscretion of Vince Cable

Should constituency surgeries always be confidential?

By David Allen Green

Today the Daily Telegraph publishes further reports of secretly recorded conversations with Liberal Democrat MPs. These follow yesterday’s disclosures of Vince Cable’s ill-considered comments recorded at his constituency surgery. The revelations are certainly interesting, but are such clandestine tactics in the public interest?

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