Sentences with phrase «parliamentary sleaze»

The trial would have re-opened the vexed question of parliamentary sleaze during the Tory party conference, and only a year after the government had made strenuous efforts to bury the issue.

Not exact matches

Fowler points to the parallels between the Conservatives in the early nineties and the present day government, as it wrestles with allegations of sleaze, deep divisions and enmities within the Parliamentary Party, growing fears about the economy and employment, and a series of seemingly unstoppable accidents.