Politician and Manchester MP Gerald Kaufman and Liverpool City Council chief executive David Henshaw received knighthoods.

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The gag borrows from Gerald Kaufman's description of Michael Foot's Labour manifesto in 1983.

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Labour MP and ex-minister Gerald Kaufman once described the tales of double-dealing Whitehall mandarins and hapless politicians as "chillingly accurate".

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Some chairmen, such as Gerald Kaufman (culture, media and sport) and Chris Mullin (home affairs) have hit on a good wheeze.

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On one side, Gerald Kaufman, a former Labour spokesman on home affairs, has long argued that only those resident in their constituency should be allowed to vote.

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Labour MPs who voted for the war and who are now expressing severe doubts over the US request include such senior figures as Sir Gerald Kaufman and once-supportive backbenchers including Eric Illsley, Geraldine Smith and a host of others.

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As well as Conservatives who want Leveson, there are Liberal Democrat and Labour MPs who oppose statutory regulation in principle - Labour's Sir Gerald Kaufman, for example is an ex-Mirror journalist and is vehemently against any scintilla of statutory regulation.

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