But a dose of PR, to elect, say, a fifth of MPs, would go a long way towards correcting the current system's unfairness-especially if the top-up MPs were selected on a regional basis.

但是假设采用比例代表制选举五分之一的国会议员，将需要很长时间来修正现行体系中的不公——尤其是在追加的国会议员以地区选举的情况下。

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The Daily Telegraph has disclosed that 27 MPs are also being investigated by the tax authorities, amid concerns that some MPs who abused their expenses may have broken tax laws.

据每日电讯报透露，目前有27名议员正接受税务机关的调查这些议员可能涉嫌滥用开支并违反税法。

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It's likely that this is what happened in the MPs' expenses scandal in the UK, when MPs started behaving in a corrupt way because they saw a few of their peers were doing it.

英国议员的开销丑闻可能就是这么一回事，议员们开始堕落的生活方式因为他们看见自己的同僚中有一批人这样做。

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She called on Eritrea to clarify the whereabouts of 11 MPs who disappeared without a trace in September,2001.

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"It has become increasingly clear that Tony Blair misled parliament on more than one occasion and I think that MPs were invited to make their own judgment on the merits of the case for war and they were entitled to do so on the truth and it looks very much as though that the truth was withheld from parliament and many MPs may well have made a different decision if they had had the full unvarnished truth,".

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While 253 MPs voted in favour of opening up the retail sector, 218 MPs voted against it.

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The government, which needs 271 MPs to stay in power, has the support of at least 280 MPs.

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Kim Howells and Margaret Beckett chaired the committee of MPs, both are Labour MPs with close government connections.

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