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Bruce Anderson writes: Bill Cash did reject the offer of

a mere PPS-ship to a mere Minister of State — which is not a govern- ment job. I believe that he would have accepted such a job had he been offered one in the late Eighties, as Charles Powell wished. After all, Mr Cash did vote for the Single European Act.

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