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Paula Keaveney

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  1. Matt Hancock’s trip to the jungle: ill-defined job descriptions enable MPs to abandon their constituents

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    In a new article for The Conversation Politics Lead Paula Keavney examines the job description for Members of Parliament and whether appearing on reality TV could ever be part of the day job.

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  2. Opinion - Order of the Jungle?

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    You can almost sense the frustration. Once upon a time former health secretary, Matt Hancock was guaranteed attention in the Commons, and a podium place at a nightly televised pandemic press conferences.

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  3. Edge Hill students help inform Parliamentary inquiries on careers services and public transport

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    Students from Edge Hill University’s ‘Politics Lab’ are helping shape policy on public transport and careers services in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

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  4. Boris Johnson breaks from his party in bitter resignation speech – what he said and what he really meant

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    Having apparently delayed the inevitable for as long as he could, Boris Johnson finally took to a podium outside 10 Downing Street on July 7 to say he would be stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party. This ultimately means his time as prime minister is over too.

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