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General News of Monday, 18 May 2009

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200 MPs - Right Number?

During a trip to Ghana in 1999 - according to the diaries of the then UK Deputy High Commissioner Craig Murray - Prince Philip asked a local MP how many colleagues he had in the Ghanaian Parliament.

Told the figure was about 200, Philip replied: 'That's about the right number. We have 650 and most of them are a complete bloody waste of time.'