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Winner at the Parliamentary Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
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Politicians are consistently voted the least trusted professional group by the UK public. They''ve recently become embroiled in scandals relating to everything from expenses to sexual harassment to illicit parties. Every year, they introduce new legislation that doesn''t do what it sets out to achieve - often with terrible financial and human costs. But, with some notable exceptions, th
