New timetable, new problem

The introduction of a new timetable at the House of Commons is making access to MPs more difficult for special interest groups, including the insurance industry.

Readers of Professional Broking are likely to share the widespread
cynicism held towards our elected representatives nowadays and I don't
blame them.


On the whole, the government, Parliament and MPs have done little over the
past 15 years to endear themselves to the general public. Their apparent
ability to ignore what the general public thinks while feathering their
own nest has formed an image that seems difficult to shake.


However, it is partly in the attempt to do just this that Parliament has
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