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He has remained an independent Conservative member of the assembly for north Wales.
Mr Richards made his bitter attack on Nick Bourne after his fellow Tory AMs withdrew the party whip from him – excluding him from the Assembly's Conservative group.
Twenty-four of the 26 Labour back-benchers who refused to vote for the Government's package of cuts two weeks ago were formally suspended from membership of the Parliamentary Labour party by their colleagues yesterday after a four-hour "trial". The victims—three of whom actually voted for their own execution— will be left suspended at the end of the hangman's rope for exactly four weeks from today. After that—and assuming they do not kick too vigorously— they will be cut down and resuscitated.– via newspapers.com (subscription required)
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