Speaker's aide quits in Tory row
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The Commons speaker's media chief resigns after urging the Tories to attack Labour MPs over their expenses claims.
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DAVID BLUNKETT resigned last night after an inquiry found his office was involved in &quot;fast-tracking&quot; his ex-lover Kimberly Quinn&#39;s nanny&#39;s application to stay in Britain.
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LONDON - A Cabinet minister embroiled in the messy fallout of an affair with a married woman resigned on Wednesday, his department said.
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The new head of the ruling political party in France has resigned his post as finance minister, one day after taking over the party.
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The Justice Department's third-in-command announced his resignation yesterday, becoming the sixth aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to leave amid the political uproar over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
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The chief Minister of the Isle of Man resigned yesterday after being arrested and questioned by police over a corruption allegation.
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A surgeons' leader resigns from talks in the row over a new system for the  training of junior doctors.
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A key aide to presidential political strategist Karl Rove resigned Friday in the wake of a congressional report that listed hundreds of contacts between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House.
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Swedish businessman who lent Â£2.6m to the Tories is to quit the party and become an adviser to PM.
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A top aide to Swedish PM Goeran Persson quits after criticism over his response to the Asian tsunami.
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Ministerial aide Jim Devine quits over plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapons.
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Senior British government minister David Blunkett, a trusted ally of Prime Minister Tony Blair, resigned on Wednesday, a government official confirmed.
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British Home Secretary David Blunkett resigned Wednesday over allegations that he abused his power to help his ex-lover&#39;s nanny get a visa.
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A key member of Tony Blair's Cabinet and the man in charge of legislation on crime and terrorism in Britain resigned after acknowledging that his department fast-tracked a visa for his former lover's nanny.
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Deputy leader of the Commons Nigel Griffiths quits over plans to renew the UK's nuclear weapon system.
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The aides resigned to protest the British prime ministerÂs refusal to set the date when he will leave office.
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The Livingston MP Jim Devine is to step down from his government post in protest over Trident nuclear.