Before Shadow Account's hero starts out on his quest into the dark heart of bookkeeping, he gets a useful tutorial in the subject from a pro.

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The latest defeat removes her from the shadow of Australia's most reviled Labor administration well before the next federal election, due in 2013.

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Under John Major he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1994, then serving as transport secretary from 1995-97 before taking the shadow Commons leader's job under William Hague's leadership.

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Krieble's foray into the ad world is apparently just a shadow of what she plans in the months before the election.

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But Mary Creagh, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said the government planned to sell off 10, 000 hectares of public forest before the consultation was over.

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But other Labour MPs accused Mr Coulson of deliberately announcing his resignation on a busy news day - when former Labour PM Tony Blair is before the Iraq Inquiry, and in the aftermath of Alan Johnson's shock resignation as shadow chancellor.

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Both the cabinet and shadow cabinet have been told to abstain when the bill comes before parliament and the prime minister's spokeswoman has said the government wants to do "as little as possible" to comply with the court ruling.

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