Is it chatter or does it matter?

Political reporter

Bob Russell, Lib-Dem MP for Colchester, said: "I don't have people in my constituency writing to me about spin doctors. What they are most worried about is the way the Government tells them health service and education is getting better when they can't get to see a doctor, or they can't get their daughter into a school."

Peter Bottomley, Tory MP for Worthing West, said: "This is not simply an obsession of the chattering classes - it has filtered through to the public consciousness."

Mike O'Brien, Labour MP for Warwickshire North, said: "What people see is the media complaining about spin doctors. I don't think they have any great concern about them one way or another."

Ed Davey, Lib-Dem MP for Kingston and Surbiton, said: "Governments have always tried to present news in their own way but Labour has taken that to a new height."

Malcolm Moss, Tory MP for Cambridgeshire North East, said: "You can't dismiss it simply as a chattering class obsession."