28 JANUARY 1989, page 5

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1706; Telex 27124; Fax 242 0603 WHY SPIT ON OUR LUCK? C harter 88 began the buzz that we are in a constitutional crisis, and now Mr Roy Hattersley has joined in. 'We live in an......

Aborted Bills

THOSE who live by the procedural device must be prepared to die by it; as did Mrs Ann Widdecombe last Friday in Parlia- ment when she failed to improve the chances of getting a......