[BITList] From today's GUARDIAN

[Michael Feltham]

Does anything change ?

Mike
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Friday
Living your principles. When Theresa May became prime minister in July she promised to run a country “for the many, not the few”. Now, it seems, it’s back to business as usual with the Tories selling access to ministers at their party conference in Birmingham later this month. For £3,150 you can buy your way into a business day <http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/01/lunch-with-theresa-may-thatll-will-be-3150> at which Theresa May and other government ministers will be present, which could be money very well spent given the networking opportunities and the number of government Brexit-related contracts potentially on offer. 

It certainly looks a better deal than the ones that Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind <http://www.theguardian.com/politics/malcolm-rifkind> appeared to be offering by using their contacts and experience to further the interests of a fictitious Chinese company. Both Rifkind and Straw, neither of whom were government ministers at the time, were asking at least £5,000 for a day’s not-so-hard graft. So perhaps Theresa May is a woman of her word after all and £3,150 is just an introductory offer to undercut the market and bring in the many.
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