Thanks to the inquiry's impressive rota of high-profile witnesses including the current prime minister, David Cameron, and two former ones, Gordon Brown and Sir John Major it is possible to plot the country's senior politicians on a spectrum of enthusiasm for press regulation.

ECONOMIST: Politics and the press

Together with other senior Clinton administration figures such as Strobe Talbott, John Shattuck, Sam Brown and of course Bill Clinton, himself who were prominent fixtures in the anti-war movement, those who have "learned nothing and forgotten nothing" from the Vietnam war are set to repeat the earlier mistake.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��Cry, the abandoned country����

Together with other senior Clinton administration figures -- such as Strobe Talbott, John Shattuck, Sam Brown and of course Bill Clinton, himself -- who were prominent fixtures in the anti-war movement, those who have "learned nothing and forgotten nothing" from the Vietnam war are set to repeat the earlier mistake.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Cry, the abandoned country...'

Little wonder that many senior members of Mr Blair's cabinet, including John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, Gordon Brown, the chancellor and Jack Straw, the home secretary, have let it be known that they would prefer to stick with the current first-past-the-post system.

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