The Mandelson Affair is stripping this government bare
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There was a story about Herbert Asquith, the dazzling barrister turned Liberal prime minister, which summed up his lawyerly detachment from the high feelings of the House of Commons. As Gladstone’s home secretary in the early 1890s, Asquith had ordered soldiers to suppress striking miners at a colliery in Yorkshire, at which two protesters were killed. Years later, while he stood at the despatch box as an unpopular PM, he was heckled by a backbencher who asked: “Why did you murder the miners at
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