Mercenaries in Parliament

Glossary of difficult words

mercenary - a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army; a person primarily concerned with material reward at the expense of ethics;

hired gun - an expert brought in to resolve complex problems or to lobby for a cause; a hired mercenary, bodyguard or assassin;

evisceration - the act of removing the essential content from something; the act of cutting open and removing the internal organs of an animal.