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Rules on advisers 'already clear'

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Part of the Prime Minister's response to the Downing Street emails affair has been to write to his cabinet secretary asking for the rules on "special advisers" in Whitehall to be tightened. Jonathan Baume, general secretary of the FDA - the union representing senior civil servants, discuss if current rules would cover the "inappropriate and juvenile" conduct by former adviser Damian McBride.

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