The Liberal-Conservative coalition government have made good on their promise to release the full list of special advisers - including details of what they earn.
The number of special adviser posts has also been cut from 78 – the number under Gordon Brown – to 68, which includes seven vacancies. It is thought this could reduce the pay bill by as much as £2m. Last year's bill was £6.8m.
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Won't be long before these spads come to replicate the Political Officers in Soviet Russia whose job was to ensure that the politicos kept to the party line.
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