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The government has shut down 61 online petitions calling for Tory minister Maria Miller to be sacked over her second-home expenses scandal, the Morning Star can reveal.
Petitions demanding Ms Miller be sacked as Culture Secretary have been constantly created since she was ordered last week to repay a fraction of the £45,000 in taxpayer’s cash she wrongly claimed.
But every one of the petitions on the official government website was shut down before it could attract signatures.
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