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Kick out 'dodgy' David Cameron, leftwingers urge

Dennis Skinner calls for mass campaign after Maria Miller quits over expenses scandal

Left MPs urged a massive mobilisation to kick out scandal-ridden David Cameron and his rabble of right-wing wreckers yesterday.

The swaggering Prime Minister faced condemnation as he clumsily attempted to limit damage caused by the resignation of culture secretary Maria Miller amid an expenses scandal.

Mr Cameron plunged himself into yet another fine mess when he chose male minister Sajid Javid to take charge of women and equalities in place of Ms Miller.

He also caused consternation among equality campaigners by choosing Nicky Morgan, a female opponent of gay marriage, as the women’s minister operating under the command of Mr Javid.

In a huge miscalculation, Mr Cameron had attempted for almost a week to save Ms Miller from resignation, praising her “excellent” role.

Leading left MP Dennis Skinner issued an appeal to the labour movement to “campaign fiercely for the next 12 months to make sure that this arrogant bunch are kicked out of office in 2015.”

Mr Skinner said the behaviour of “dodgy Dave” in this latest scandal showed he believed he was born to rule.

If his crew were allowed to get back into power they would privatise the entire NHS and introduce free schools in every part of Britain, destroying local authority-based education, he warned.

Easington Labour MP Grahame Morris declared that Mr Cameron’s government was steeped in “corruption and arrogance” and must be kicked out by the British people.

In a further snub to women, Ms Morgan will have to Box and Cox in her new women’s job while still carrying on as a Treasury minister in the role of Financial Secretary.

Mr Cameron will allow Ms Morgan to attend Cabinet meetings but the number of women serving as full Cabinet ministers in charge of departments will be cut from four to three.

Labour shadow minister for women and equalities Gloria De Piero complained that the PM’s decision to replace Ms Miller with Mr Javid “means that there is now no full member of the Cabinet speaking for women.”

Ms De Piero added: “When it comes to women, it’s out of sight, out of mind.”

The PM showed no remorse yesterday, despite Ms Miller’s resignation and a growing mutiny on the Tory backbenches against his clod-hopping leadership style.

In a letter to Ms Miller, he told her that she should be “proud” of her service as a minister.

And he added: “I hope that you will be able to return to serving the government on the front bench in due course.”

For her part, the brazen Ms Miller announced that she would carry on as Tory MP for Basingstoke.

Mr Cameron attempted to wriggle himself out of a corner at Commons Question Time by seizing on Labour leader Ed Miliband’s week-long failure to demand Ms Miller’s resignation.

Cheered on by Labour MPs, Mr Miliband accused the PM of “a terrible failure of judgement” and declared that in any other business there would have been no question of her staying in her job.

But Mr Cameron hit back, accusing Mr Miliband of being “the first leader of the opposition, probably in history, to come to this house and make the suggestion that somebody should resign after they have already resigned.”

Ms Miller achieved notoriety by making a peremptory 32-second apology in the Commons after she was asked by the tame parliamentary standards committee to repay £5,800.

The committee of MPs plus three lay members also caused bitter controversy by overruling a demand from the standards commissioner that she should pay back £45,000 in over-claimed mortgage expenses.

Labour MP John Mann called on disgraced Ms Miller to reject her ministerial severance package of £17,000.

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