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Asked about speculation over a Labour leadership challenge, he claimed Sir Keir had "spectacularly misused his opportunity of a landslide win".

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Reform has criticised the process, with Tice branding it a "systemic misuse of taxpayers' money" in a letter to Bailey in June.

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Though the claim was never verified and the politician later denied that his family had misused state resources, Aditya's mind was made up.

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Sultana said that at "no point was members' data misused or put at risk" and that "all funds received from members were ringfenced and protected in the appropriate manner".

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It’s about misusing government power to go after enemies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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