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Richard's whipping up parliamentary interest
RICHARD Wilson, star of One Foot in the Grave, has been entertaining audiences at a hit West End show called Whipping It Up, in which he plays a government whip.
A whip has one of the most important jobs in government, keeping order among backbench MPs and ensuring they vote the way they are supposed to. But they rarely get a lot of credit for their work, which goes on mostly behind the scenes.
Spotted in the audience of a recent production was a group of real-life government whips, including Labour MP Steve McCabe (Lab Hall Green).
So is it a realistic portrayal of their work? Nobody from the whip's office was available for comment.
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