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| | The Observer | Special reports | Labour's passport to crisis |
 | | Vaz's office has informed The Observer that they approved the draft quickly and that it was only stalling from Mandelson that held up the release of the answer. |
 | | On the wall in Keith Vaz's office is a line of photographs of former Ministers of Europe, stretching back from the gregarious Spanish-speaking Tristan Garel-Jones through to the fanatically Eurosceptic David Heathcoat-Amory and ending with a single, empty hook. |
 | | Vaz made his five-minute speech as billed, but before his fellow speakers had finished at the lectern, he shuffled ignominiously to the side of the stage, almost tripping over a music stand in his haste to escape, and fled through a back exit pursued by shouting journalists. |
| observer.guardian.co.uk /2001review/story/0,1590,623080,00.html (4262 words) |
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