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Liberal Review shamed by the out-going Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

Sir Alistair Graham has shamed Liberal Review.
Submitted by Peter Welch on 19 March 2007 - 3:13pm

Our poll gives just five categeories of Labour shame. Sir Alistair effortlessly churned out a list of seven:

Mr Blair's "seven sins" were:

• The cash-for-peerages scandal, which arose from the 'personal decision' by Mr Blair to take secret loans;

• Iraq, where the case for war "undermined trust on a key issue where the lives of British soldiers were at risk";

• Mr Blair's "sofa-style" of decision making which overrrode Cabinet government;

• "Shocking political interference" in a fraud investigation by ending the inquiry into alleged corruption over BAE’s arms deal with Saudi Arabia;

• The failure to properly investigate alleged breaches of the ministerial code - involving David Blunkett, John Prescott and Tessa Jowell;

• Postal voting, which despite public concerns was made a "central plank of the electoral system and so leaving our system open to fraud";

• An "undue reliance on spin" and special advisers.

Personally I wouldn't put the last of these on quite the same plane as the rest of the list. There is still time to vote though.