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Listed below are comments made by Recount between Tuesday, 13th May 2008 and Wednesday, 11th June 2008.

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Potential rebels with a cause 11:36am on 11 Jun 2008 Tonight's vote take me back to the dying days of the Callaghan Government - deals with the Unionists and Ambulances driving into Palace Yard to have their occupants verified by the Whips. Are we in the dying days of this Government or at the very least this Prime Minister? I think so. Even if Brown scrapes tonights vote - which I think he will - he is entering the last chapter of his Premiership. How foolish to stake so much on this vote and whatever we personally think of McNulty and Smith they are being courageous and principled to take this measure through the House - which deep down they oppose - in order to save their master's skin.

Comes as no surprise that Ann Widdecombe is set to vote with the Government. Anyone who presided over the hand-cuffing of pregnant women prisoners is not going to worry about banging up someone for a few weeks without evidence!
Team tactics 11:10am on 13 May 2008 It is very rare for a politician to admit that they are not up to the job. Estelle Morris famously - and indeed courageously - stepped down from the Cabinet as Education Secretary in 2002 saying at the time “"I just don't think I am as good at it as I was at my other job. I am not having second best in a post that is as important as this”.

Frankly I think The Prime Minister can learn much more from Estelle Morris than he can from a bunch of football managers!

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