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  Yes they do have their spin as well Howard. The Telegraph has for a long time been a critic.
  
  Do not mix up the encouragement of individual thinking with the need for getting legislation though parliament. The latter is what the whips are for. The MPs are quite at liberty to put forward various ideas.
  
  Remember two things:
  1/ We are in the middle of the silly season so the media are looking out for things to spin even more than usual to create a good story.
  2/ We will soon enter the Conference season and that is the time when ideas are encouraged and debated.
  
  I have been to many a conference right back to the time of Mrs T when new ideas were floated that were at odds with policy at the time but eventually end up as policy. Back in 2004 Doug Carswell put forward a document that helped him make his name (with contributions from Dan Hannen) much of that is in the localism agenda of the government. Governments get stale quickly if they stop their backbench MPs from doing 'blue sky' thinking.

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