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Leader of the UK Independence Party Lord Pearson tells the BBC he wants to see a hung Parliament. He says the election is "phoney" anyway because so many of our laws are now made in Brussels. And he believes that a victory for any of the main parties would lead to "five more years of integration" in Europe and leave us "in the bowels of the corrupt octopus, not just in its tentacles as we are now". Former MP Martin Bell is telling the BBC his thoughts on the expenses issue. He stood and won as an independent candidate in 1997 on an anti-sleaze platform following the cash-for-questions scandal, but he thinks the public's trust in politics is in an even worse state now than then. Former Conservative Home Secretary Lord Fowler thinks there is as much desire for change now as there was when Margaret Thatcher won in 1979.
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