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and in his 2005 book ''Rip-Off!: the scandalous inside story of the management consulting money machine'' he criticised the greed and sharp practice of consultants. His next book ''Plundering the Public Sector: how New Labour are letting consultants run off with £70 billion of our money'' was co-authored by

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and addressed consultancy in the public sector. In April 2008 he published ''Squandered: how Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money''. He adopted a

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, and created the publishing house "The Original Book Company", to publish ''Rip-off!'' after it was turned down by conventional publishers "for fear, he says, that it might upset the wrong people". After it sold 10,000 copies his next two books were published by commercial publisher

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, but he kept the pseudonym to benefit from the first book's success. In June 2008 Craig announced that he would stand as a candidate in the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election, but came tenth out of 26 candidates, with 0.6% of the vote; the

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's David Davis won with 71.6%.

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