Downing Street Says » Cash for Peerages

Asked if anyone in Downing Street had been questioned by police about cash for peerages, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) replied that nothing had changed.

Asked if we had a reaction to the fact that Michael Howard had been interviewed, the PMOS said it was a good try, but no.

Asked by the Evening Standard if Jonathan Powell had been questioned, the PMOS said that all along, he had said that he would only talk about the Prime Minister, and nobody else. However, people should not get too excited.

Asked again if nobody in Downing Street had been questioned, the PMOS replied that nothing had changed, and he had set right from the start, very clear rules about what he would and would not talk about. Therefore, what the PMOS said that he would not talk about was anybody else in Downing Street, apart from the Prime Minister. However, he had said very carefully to the Evening Standard that they should not get too excited.

Asked why the PMOS would only talk about the Prime Minister, and not others in No10, the PMOS said that he did not talk about civil servants or Special Advisors.

Asked if people should therefore go to the Cabinet Office for information, the PMOS replied that if people wanted to waste their time, then they could, but the Cabinet Office would adopt the same approach. The PMOS said that no other department would talk about civil servants or Special Advisors either, but it was a police investigation.

Asked what the Prime Minister’s frame of mind was about the investigation, the PMOS said that it was very straightforward; it was a police investigation, and it was up to police how they investigated it.

Asked if there had been any calls from the police to make an appointment, the PMOS said again that nothing had changed.

Asked if there had been any request from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for the Prime Minister to give evidence, the PMOS said that he was not aware of anything, but it would be matter for the PAC to talk about.

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Thank god (irony is not lost when you are a humanist) for Angus Brendan MacNeil, the young but energetic MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles to the rest of you), for exposing the Emperor’s new clothes.

Cash for peerages has been going on for decades under Labour and Tory PMs (and probably the Lib Dems too), yet you have all sat back and turned a blind eye. Well hell mend ye.

No wonder we want out of the Mother of all Parliaments, because frankly she is becoming the whore of all democracies!
Comment by Grant Thoms — 15 Nov 2006 on 2:45 pm | Link

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