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ID="9999" STYLE="LINK_Inline">Daily Mail reports on the 19 "phantom" Labour ministers, "handed their marching orders" as MPs by the electorate, but allowed to stay on as ministers under constitutional rules until the Queen appoints a new prime minister. Picking out just a few - armed forces minister Bill Rammell, employment minister Jim Knight, and local government minister Shahid Malik - it says that for now they remain on the public payroll, and are still entitled to ministerial cars and a civil service staff. More |