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Don’t listen to this foreigner

The British anti-Murdoch Labour MP has no right to interfere in Australia’s election on Labor’s behalf

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

 London

There is a long and distinguished history of people — usually journalists — observing and commenting upon the politics of other nations. It is what I am doing right now. It is quite another matter for a foreigner to come to a country that is about to have an exercise in democracy and actively to engage in the debate — a debate in which he or she has no vote and from which he or she will not directly feel the consequences.

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Simon Heffer is political columnist of the Daily Mail.

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