The Mirror's new political correspondent James Lyons has an important story about the defence chiefs' attack on Gordon Brown last month:
Three retired generals who attacked Gordon Brown for not spending enough on our troops have lucrative jobs with defence firms, the Mirror can reveal.
The Prime Minister was accused last month by five former military chiefs of short-changing soldiers.
But Admiral Lord Boyce, Field Marshal Lord Inge and General Lord Guthrie did not bother mentioning that their firms had made fortunes from huge military contracts and the war in Iraq.
Yesterday Labour MP Eric Joyce called for a probe into why they ignored parliamentary rules. He said: "They should say sorry to their fellow Lords and come clean about how much they are pocketing from these defence firms." (Mirror)
A very good reason to get on and abolish the House of Lords.
