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Stepped down: Geoff Hoon has quit the Cabinet

McNulty and Hoon become latest to go


05.06.09

Employment minister Tony McNulty has become the latest to resign from the Government, it was announced tonight.

McNulty follows Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon, who resigned from the Cabinet earlier today.

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Obviously they don't have a Monopoly set, or they'd both be holding the "Go to Jail, go directly to jail, do not pass GO (as if they could pass anything!) do not collect £200". They've already had their £200 many times over.

- .Lezl, London / ENGLAND

I wonder when we will see David Cameron actually sack an expenses miscreant with immediate effect. No pay-off, no salary until the end of the parliament, just a pension with today as a cut-off point. This is Gordon Brown's moral compass in operation.

- Val Daniels, Mijas Costa, Spain

Hoon's property empire .. will it now be returned to the beleguered UK taxpayer ?

- Pete, Aberdeen

It's been a good day !!

- Tithonus, London

Ha ha ha. What a hoon. But will he give back all the money?

- Jf, London

Should have gone years ago. A buffoon. And now an expenses buffoon.

- Albert Hall, hove england

Well done Gordon Brown eh Keith Price Luton?

- Dave Davies, Basingstoke

And another one... But why does Crash Gordon not resign?!??

- Peteo, London NW1


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