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Watt Who?

  • Posted by Martin Bright
  • 26 November 2007

Finally Peter Watt does the decent thing

It's over a year since I doorstepped Labour General Secretary Peter Watt outside Portcullis House in Westminster for a Channel 4 Dispatches on Cash for Honours. I wrote about the programme at the time in this article . I always thought he should have been taken to task over his role in the murky business of the Labour loans, which were always intended as donations in my opinion. He will not be missed.

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Martin Bright began his journalistic career writing in very simple English for a magazine aimed at French school children. This experience has informed his style ever since. He worked for the BBC World Service, and The Guardian before joining the Observer as Education Correspondent. He went on to become Home Affairs Editor before becoming the New Statesman's political editor in 2005.

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