Mr Baker said it was "shameful" that ministers were spending so much "being ferried around in the lap of luxury".

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"We are living in the lap of luxury here, " he said, gesturing to the blue sky and the magnificent city skyline.

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"It's the one time you can feel that you are in the lap of luxury, " Detroit milliner Gena Conti explained.

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If governments moved the retirement age down to 40 every young person would have a job and everyone would be living in the lap of luxury.

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Driven by the powerful "gift" she had first become aware of as a nine-year-old girl living in the lap of luxury, she chose to work as a nursery nurse and has worked with children ever since.

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Raikkonen took the lead for good on lap 43 of 58 in a race that had seven different leaders, and had the luxury of driving conservatively in the closing laps while Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel scrambled in vain to keep up.

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