Cohen argues that ministers are paying lip service to the issue.

During yesterday's Commons debate on Libya, the prime minister paid tribute to the bravery of the British journalists in Libya.

The minister, 68, failed to register huge income from media and book deals as VAT liable and did not pay the duty on it.

The Russian foreign minister, Igor S. Ivanov, paid a recent visit to North Korea.

The shares finished their first day of trading at double the price the ministers had paid.

The groups would be happy to accept the gifts if ministers paid for their upkeep, but that would rather defeat the object of the exercise.

The prime minister is also paying attention to the workers of Brasov, with their own radical tradition stemming from a 1987 riot.

Will real reform require ministers to pay more than lip-service to the elected Commons - or is that old-school thinking?

Some-one earning 40K may never repay their loan in full but their total repayments will exceed what an average minister would pay by far.

The Carnegie commission paid for the first weekend gathering, in Westchester County, but the ministers have paid their own ways subsequently.