Ian Liddell-Grainger, Conservative MP for Bridgwater said the LGA report was helpful and has "set out the parameters and shows we've got to do an awful lot of work".

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Not wanting our report to join the ranks of previous reports on this subject gathering dust on library shelves, we did establish the parameters of Mr Blair's and Mr Ashdown's thinking as well as that of the Conservative Party.

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