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51. Doctored every available statistic to suit New Labia thus bringing new levels of 'spin' hitherto only dreamt about.

pslewis

I think it is SO awful and terrible what Labour has done, I reckon we should see it all again:-

1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 30 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest counties
11. 77,500 more nurses
12. 19,300 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 28,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for the over-60s and the disabled in Wales and Scotland
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less

Quite WHY they got voted in AGAIN is beyond me

Ha Ha Ha Ha ......... they are the facts, hard to swallow for some, shame

And why Labour will get voted BACK in again

Because THEY DELIVER!!

Pete

Chip

Labour Scandals
Police quiz Labour MP over 'bribe' - 19/05/97
Labour denies sleaze charge - 25/08/97
Blair Lies to the House of Commons - 19/11/97 Hansard
Labour MP in court on votes charge - 17/12/97
MP denies poll fraud charge - 18/12/97
Row over Blair's 'Murdoch intervention' - 27/03/98 Rupert Murdoch said he had asked Mr Blair to contact Italian PM Romani Prodi over a deal he was planning
No let-up in 'contacts' row - 08/07/98
Hague hammers Blair over sleaze - 08/07/98 for encouraging a "culture of cronyism."
Fresh questions in lobbyist row - 11/07/98 the connections of Roger Liddle, the Downing Street policy adviser at the heart of the cash-for-access affair, with Prima Europe
Tories step up cash-for-access row - 13/07/98 Mr Draper admitted being "boastful" about his contacts with the government, but rejected suggestions of improper behaviour... Fresh allegations led to more denials from Minister Without Portfolio Peter Mandelson, who used to employ Mr Draper
Robinson escapes with rap on knuckles - 16/07/98
Labour's top donors pick up key posts - 31/08/98
The Mandelson File - 23/12/98
Tories call for 'Champagne Jack' inquiry - 18/01/99 Has Jack Cunningham been indulging in high-living at the tax-payers' expense?
Blair escapes call to appear before 'cronyism' panel - 23/02/99 Mr Hart, 57, is the godfather of Mr Blair's daughter. He was appointed to the £73,000-a-year post, which was not advertised, in March 1998
Labour Scandal - Jaguar - 23/05/99
£11m spent on foreign trips - 19/06/99 The most expensive trip by a minister was made by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who travelled with 14 officials to the Far East in 1997 at a cost of £169,186
Hague attacks 'Labour hypocrites' - 07/10/99 accusing the prime minister of lying and breaking his promises
Brown accused of cronyism - 22/10/99
Robinson 'has scandal photos' - 23/10/99
Robinson 'gave to second blind trust' - 23/10/99
Minister denies destruction of evidence - 24/10/99
Inquiry into Dobson's campaign - 05/11/99
Mandelson given key election role - 09/11/99
Downing Street defends Mandelson refurbishment - 15/11/99
Brown denies impropriety in flat purchase - 09/01/00
PM's wife pays penalty fare - 10/01/00
No ticket, so Cherie falls foul of the law - 11/01/00
Robinson accused of DTI fraud - 23/01/00
Downing Street accused of forcing mandarin to quit - 23/01/00
Robinson faces fraud inquiry - 23/01/00
Transtec inquiry examines grants - 25/01/00
Robinson: I'm blameless - 26/01/00
Labour millionaire faces police inquiry - 30/01/00
Police investigate TransTec - 07/02/00
Online and on message (Blair spins on the web - using public money) - 11/02/00
Lords under anti-sleaze microscope - 13/03/00
Filkin [Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards] widens investigation into minister's 'payments' [Keith Vaz] - 19/03/00
Blair misled House on NHS - 26/03/00
Blair is attacked over 'cash for coronets' - 01/04/00
Byers accused of doctoring records on crisis at Rover - 06/04/00
Vaz 'promised solicitor a place on honours list' - 09/04/00
MPs delay report on Prescott flat - 19/04/00 The Labour-dominated Standards and Privileges Committee, which adjudicates on breaches of Commons rules, had been expected to approve publication today. A meeting yesterday broke up without reaching a conclusion and the committee will not meet again until May 9, the week after the elections.
Dewar denies jumping NHS waiting list - 01/05/00
NHS advert 'misled on nurse pay levels' - 03/05/00 Government advert said average nurses earned more than £20,000
Commons misled over GM bungle - 21/05/00 Ministers kept the accidental planting of GM crops across Britain secret even from their own advisers
Alli [Labour peer] broke Lords convention - 01/06/00
Blair tycoon paid just £5,000 tax - 25/06/00
Row over peer's tax bill - 25/06/00
Blair stands by millionaire with £5,000 tax bill - 26/06/00
The reason why Tony's cronies make us angry - 26/06/00 Under the heading of "sleaze", this Government is no better than its predecessors
Tories revive questions on Lord Levy's diplomatic role - 27/06/00 Further queries raised about role played by multimillionaire Labour fundraiser as Tony Blair's 'ermine envoy'
Robinson in talks over £3m Belgian tax bill - 28/06/00 Former Paymaster General has French assets frozen by Brussels court order
Levy claim for £50,000 expenses [during the year in which he said he was 'living on capital' and paid just £5,000 in taxes] - 02/07/00
'Junket Jack' [Cunningham] goes to the races for £40,000 - 02/07/00 Former agriculture minister and cabinet 'enforcer' lands plum job as adviser to greyhound racing industry
Blairs offered cheap holidays by wealthy friends - yet again - 02/07/00
'Unfair' dome bidder linked to Labour - 09/07/00 Competitors for purchase of Millennium Dome to make final pitchs amid accusations of cronyism
Blair faces cronyism gibes over Birt's job - 10/07/00 Fresh accusations of spin as former BBC Director-General takes post as powerful new adviser on crime
Birt crime job offer criticised - 10/07/00 "Appointing Mr Birt to work as an adviser for one day a week hardly shows a commitment to reducing crime" - Ann Widdecombe
Prescott to boost regional agencies - 12/07/00 Deputy Prime Minister signals increased funding for controversial RDAs amid accusations of cronyism

Chip

BBC challenged by MPs over Birt's £800,000 - 14/07/00 Parliamentary committee criticises broadcaster for size of former Director-General's salary package
Brother-in-law lands Irvine in legal cronies row - 16/07/00 Lord chancellor has given plum legal jobs to his brother-in-law and an old friend
Blunkett failed to declare rent after moving to free home - 16/07/00
Blunkett fails to tell Parliament about his income as landlord - 16/07/00
Mandelson urged to return pay-off - 25/07/00
Mandelson 'should return cash' - 25/07/00
Politicians 'stuff quangos with cronies' - 26/07/00
Public loses faith with quangos - 27/07/00 Two thirds of people believe appointments are politically influenced
Anti-electoral fraud campaign urged - 27/07/00
Ministers 'misled' public over scale of Dome's losses - 06/08/00
Chequers servant bill soars as Blair plays lord of the manor - 06/08/00 As Mr Blair flew off on another free holiday in Italy and France yesterday, Downing Street confirmed that he spent £364,319 of taxpayers' money on cooks and stewards last year
Connery 'called up by Mandelson' - 03/09/00 The 007 star expressed his fears about being used as a political trophy
Straw rules out sex register law - 15/09/00 because his brother would be on it?
Mandelson 'sobbed as he was told to resign' - 18/09/00 Officials have always insisted that Mr Mandelson resigned voluntarily
Tory anger as minister claims fare for 'holiday' - 18/09/00
Tories challenge Blair over £1m 'lies' - 19/09/00
Ecclestone: A problem of perception - 19/09/00
Resign call over donation 'lies' - 19/09/00
Tories call for Brown to quit over 'lie' - 20/09/00
Stubborn Chancellor is in serious trouble - 20/09/00
'A straight sort of guy' - who believes Blair now? - 20/09/00 Blair: "most people who have dealt with me think that I am a pretty straight sort of guy - and I am." [NOT!]
Brown's word games backfire - 20/09/00
Brown told to resign over funding 'lies' - 20/09/00
Brown denies lying over £1m donation to Labour - 20/09/00
A few straight answers would have killed the controversy - 20/09/00
Brown faces calls to quit over F1 cash admission - 20/09/00 the Conservatives demanded his resignation following allegations that he lied about the £1m donation
Blair allies accuse Brown of shifting blame for F1 row - 23/09/00
Fresh Ecclestone inquiry rejected - 11/10/00
Mandelson leaks 'fuelled the rift between Blair and Brown' - 16/10/00
Mandelson 'lied over home loan' - 16/10/00
Mandelson in fresh loan row - 16/10/00
'Divisive' Mandelson 'misleading' on loan - 16/10/00
The mystery of Blair's £250,000 - 17/10/00
Labour rot starts at the top - Hague - 18/10/00 (he must have read my 1998 leaflet)
PM 'sent civil servant to sack Robinson' - 18/10/00
Sleazebuster queries Labour funding - 19/10/00
Inquiry into UK's 'Benz-aid' to African rulers - 29/10/00 The controversy is embarrassing for Miss Short, who has changed the way British aid is delivered to Third World countries
This is where our money goes - 29/10/00 Foreign aid is the only global activity in which billions of pounds can be handed out with no real questions asked about how and where it will be spent
Inquiry launched over Speaker bets - 01/11/00
Ministers 'making Forces political' - 02/11/00 an officer had been forced to defend Government policy
MPs were misled over liability for the Dome's debts - 16/11/00
Labour 'spins web site of deceit' - 03/12/00
Sack for ticket inspector who fined Cherie Blair £10 - 31/12/00
Labour won't name new £2m donor - 31/12/00 LABOUR has bypassed its own "anti-sleaze" laws by banking a £2 million donation from a mystery backer
'Fears grow' for Dome bid - 01/01/01 The government has been told the plans of its preferred Millennium Dome bidder [Labour donor Robert Bourne] will fail
Blair faces revolt over £2m gift - 02/01/01
Labour's mystery £2m donor named - 02/01/01 Lord Hamlyn, publisher
Mandelson and the Dome bidder's party - 04/01/01
Mandelson's Party - 04/01/01
Peter's friends make a birthday fuss - 05/01/01
Labour MPs attack big donations - 05/01/01 "democracy for sale to the highest bidders"... 11 people who had given more than £5,000 to Labour had been ennobled since the party came to power
Dome bidder's gift to Labour - 06/01/01
Wilson aide Joe Haines says Labour gave honours to donors - 07/01/01
Blair 'proud' of Labour donors - 07/01/01
Dome sale examined - 08/01/01
Comedian [Mark Thomas] attacks Whitehall secrecy - 08/01/01 Trade and Industry minister Richard Caborn wanted "background/dirt on him in order to rubbish him"
Mandelson accused over passport - 23/01/01 he has been accused of helping an Asian billionaire who bailed out the Dome to get a British passport
Mandelson fall-out spreads - 25/01/01 Europe Minister Keith Vaz wrote to both Tony Blair and Mr Mandelson on behalf of the Hindujas in 1997
Hague says Mandelson affair is not over - 25/01/01
Pressure mounts for Vaz to speak - 25/01/01 New claims have surfaced about alleged connections between the Indian brothers involved in the row and Minister for Europe, Keith Vaz
Hague puts pressure on Vaz over passports - 26/01/01
Pursued by the press, Vaz does a vanishing act - 26/01/01
Vaz sidesteps questions on links with Hindujas - 26/01/01
Neill calls for new sleaze code - 27/01/01
Blair 'must control ministers' - 28/01/01
Vaz 'linked to Hinduja bank bid' - 28/01/01

Chip

How corporate man came to take over our public life - 28/01/01
Family with gift for getting to know ministers - 29/01/01
Inquiry into passport row 'to be concluded within weeks' - 29/01/01
Hinduja admits he asked ministers about passport - 29/01/01
Could the Hindujas do a Fayed on Tony Blair? - 30/01/01
A task for Redwood - 30/01/01 The more we learn of this case, the more William Hague's performance at Prime Minister's Questions last week is vindicated
Vaz failings criticised by watchdog - 30/01/01
Poll: Labour more 'sleazy' than the Conservatives - 31/01/01
Mr Blair should say if he thinks his friend is a liar - 05/02/01 Stop digging, Mr Mandelson. Politically, you are already 6 feet under
Ministers withdraw support as pressure on Vaz grows - 05/02/01
Less than ministerial - 05/02/01 At worst, Mr Blair is suggesting that the colour of Mr Vaz's skin entitles him to be judged by a lower standard than other ministers
Ministers partied with Hindujas - 17/02/01
Irvine asks lawyers [whom he has the power to promote] to fund Labour - 18/02/01 !!!!!
Irvine under fire for soliciting Labour donations - 18/02/01 His action was condemned by leading lawyers, who said that colleagues would feel intimidated into giving money. In his judicial role, the Lord Chancellor is supposed to be politically impartial
Prescott adviser in dome sale row - 18/02/01 Deputy prime minister was warned that key aide faced conflict of interest over judging Legacy bid
No 10 spins its own news on 'Pravda.com' - 18/02/01 the government's new online news service will offer the key stories of the day presented the way Alastair Campbell, the prime minister's spokesman, wants them reported - at a cost of millions to the taxpayer
Ministers take royal flight out of traffic chaos - 18/02/01 Ministry of defence figures show Labour using Queen's jets more than twice as often as Tory predecessors
Irvine 'promoted Labour cash drive' - 18/02/01 The lord chancellor, as head of the judiciary, has to be seen to be neutral
Irvine in funds-for-jobs row - 19/02/01 The Lord Chancellor faced calls for his resignation last night after he admitted asking lawyers who depend on him for their promotions to give money to the Labour Party
Let's bill all the lawyers - 19/02/01 Lawyers are expected to act without fear or favour; it is rather strange when their boss [Lord Irvine] apparently dangles both in front of their eyes
Lord Irvine in party donations row - 19/02/01 it is a fundamental corruption of the office of Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chancellor should resign
Irvine urged to quit - 19/02/01
Lord Irvine: A 'blunder' too far? - 19/02/01
Peers must wait for Irvine's answers - 20/02/01
Q & A: The Lord Chancellor - 20/02/01
MPs call for Irvine inquiry - 20/02/01
Irvine was 'pressed' to ask for donations - 21/02/01
Anti-sleaze Labour MP 'broke poll rules' - 25/02/01 misusing public money for election campaigning
Hammond pinpoints Mandelson 'muddle' - 04/03/01 Mandelson's friends doubt that the report will fully exonerate Mr Mandelson of misleading Downing Street
Hammond Report deals No 10 unexpected blow - 04/03/01
Hinduja passport inquiry likely to clear Mandelson - 05/03/01
Tories call for probe into claims over Cook - 11/03/01
Foreign Office denies Cook lied over arms-to-Sierra Leone investigation - 12/03/01
Dishonourable member - 18/03/01 Vaz
Special advisers on 587 foreign trips since 1997 - 20/03/01
Brown refuses to be drawn into Robinson 'gossip' - 21/03/01 biography claims ministers tried to hide tax arrangements
Vaz hands Blair a new headache - 21/03/01
Vaz defiant as inquiry starts - 22/03/01
Byers tries to halt Robinson book - 23/03/01 The book alleges that Mr Robinson received a £200,000 payment that he never declared
Vaz attends summit 'to escape critics' - 23/03/01
MPs warned on sleaze - 23/03/01
Vaz: I will help new inquiry - 23/03/01
Bribery laws 'shameful', say MPs - 04/04/01
Government is advertising's top spender - 17/04/01 Government spending on advertising has increased steadily since Labour was elected. In 1997 it was £43.8 million but by 2000 this had more than doubled to £102.7 million
Taxpayer 'footing Labour propaganda bill' - 26/04/01 in 1988, Tony Blair was highly critical of spending on advertising by the Tory government... In power, Labour has significantly increased the Whitehall advertising budget. Oops: Ian McCartney, the Cabinet Office minister, confirmed that the advertising campaigns were intended to to portray the Government in a favourable light!!!
Commission for Racial Equality rejected 20 claims against Labour - 29/04/01 it consistently refused to investigate allegations against the party... the majority of CRE commissioners have close connections to Labour
Writing's on the wallpaper for Irvine - 01/05/01
Council accuses Brown over 'election' letter - 03/05/01 Copies signed by the Chancellor were sent to schools with the instruction that they be distributed among parents
Labour 'taking anti-hunt group's cash for policies' - 04/05/01
Commons censure looms for Robinson - 04/05/01 for failing to declare a £200,000 business deal with Robert Maxwell
MPs censure Robinson - 04/05/01 for misleading them over a deal he forged with Robert Maxwell
'Houdini' Robinson's great escape - 06/05/01 Labour-dominated committee delayed any decision on what to do until after the election
Blair urged to explain Hinduja visit [to 10 Downing Street!] - 06/05/01
Blair under new pressure over Hindujas - 07/05/01
Hinduja 'cover up' claimed - 09/05/01 evidence that Blair "duped" the country and mounted a "cover-up" over his relations with the Hinduja brothers... five leaked letters to the millionaire businessmen, some signed 'Yours ever, Tony', show that the links went "far deeper than we were led to believe"
Blair's links with Hindujas revealed in leaked letters - 10/05/01
Yours ever, Tony - 10/05/01 Two of the letters
Minister 'lied' over plan to merge Scots brigades - 11/05/01 "This report recommends the amalgamation of the Highland and Lowland Brigades. Why John Spellar denies any knowledge of this report is hard to understand."
Mrs Vaz ordered to submit papers - 11/05/01
Vaz ruling will be delayed until after the election - 12/05/01
Returning Hindujas face inquiry on links with Vaz - 13/05/01
Blair is irritated as pledge over sleaze comes back to haunt him - 15/05/01 Much to Mr Blair's obvious irritation, half the 20-minute "Today" interview was taken up with questions about whether he had fulfilled his promise to lead a Government that would be "purer than pure" (he hadn't)
Peerage 'bribes' to be looked at after election - 15/05/01 John Gilbert, the former MP and now Lord Gilbert, has confirmed that he was offered a peerage and a ministerial job by someone "high up" in the Labour Party
Seven councillors resign from the Labour Party - 15/05/01 They accuse the ruling Labour group of being "in it for themselves"... compounded by the continuous bullying, harassment, physical intimidation and racism... nothing's been done, "not even when we wrote to Tony Blair."
Minister urged to quit over Army mergers - 17/05/01 Iain Duncan Smith, the Shadow Defence Secretary, accused Mr Spellar of mounting a cover-up so as not to lose votes in Scotland
No defence - 17/05/01 Iain Duncan Smith, the shadow defence secretary, has accused the minister of not telling the truth, and he has called for his resignation. He is justified in doing so
Maff 'hiding behind law to conceal true picture' - 23/05/01 The Ministry of Agriculture is using the Data Protection Act to block information on the numbers and types of most animals culled
Blair accused of 'suspect judgment' in Microsoft visit - 30/05/01 Bill Gates's closeness to Downing Street has caused unease because his company has been the subject of investigations by the European Union and the American Justice Department
Campbell's pay-off queried - 31/05/01 ...public perception that Labour was receiving an "inappropriate subsidy from the taxpayer"
Meacher [Environment Minister] 'broke Commons rules' - 02/06/01
Vaz 'misled inquiry' - 05/06/01 The minister for Europe did not disclose all his property interests to a parliamentary standards inquiry
Anti-sleaze investigator 'must go' - 28/06/01
'Back sleaze watchdog', says peer - 29/06/01
Minister 'invented' report showing his policy was success - 10/07/01
Smith apologises for inventing report on PFI 'success' - 11/07/01
Revealing code of conduct designed to prevent sleaze - 16/07/01
Byers in row over housing scheme announcement - 07/09/01 Labour plays its double-counted expenditure trick (again): the Government had already publicised the £250 million Starter Home Initiative 10 times between July 2000 and April 2001
Teacher statistics 'massaged' - 05/10/01 the government has gone in for massaging the figures: 2,500 of the "new" teachers are not fully qualified, in breach of the government's own guidelines
This is good time to 'bury' news, says Byers aide Jo Moore - 09/10/01 She sent this email within an hour of the Trade Center attack: "It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury. Councillors' expenses?"
Byers aide apologises for 'attacks memo' - 09/10/01 Shortly after the e-mail was circulated a press release was put out over an increase in payments to councillors - normally a controversial local issue. Jo Moore is still in her post! A "leak" inquiry is underway
Sept 11: 'a good day to bury bad news' - 10/10/01 around Westminster, where there was shock and distaste at Jo Moore's cynicism, it was thought that she would have to go
Danger signals - 10/10/01 Number 10 was quick to say there was no reason for Jo Moore to resign!
Jo Moore's chief error was in getting caught out - 10/10/01 Manipulation of the news is the very stuff of Labour's culture of obsessive media control
Jo Moore, the aide who rose to power by fighting the Left - 10/10/01 It was Mandelson who took her on as a press officer
Adviser 'should quit over spin e-mail' say relatives of those who died - 10/10/01

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Pressure mounts on terror memo aide Jo Moore - 10/10/01 Conservative Party chairman David Davis urges a high-level investigation: "This is something that assaults the integrity of the British civil service"
Tories call for inquiry into Jo Moore's "bad news day" email - 11/10/01
Byers accused in 'dirty tricks' row - 11/10/01 He is accused of forcing a career civil servant out of his post after he refused to "spin" against the head of the London Underground. A dirty tricks campaign designed to discredit Bob Kiley is said to have been orchestrated by Jo Moore. Prime Labour sleaze
Byers faces dirty tricks claims - 11/10/01
Byers may be sidelined over Railtrack crisis - 12/10/01 Downing Street has tried to distance the Prime Minister from the row surrounding Mr Byers over the alleged "dirty tricks" campaign
Call for inquiry into 'dirty tricks' - 12/10/01
Where is Byers? - 12/10/01 250,000 people, whose shares he has abruptly made almost worthless, are a touch angry
Someone must pay if the rules are broken - 12/10/01 Jo Moore appears to have breached the official rules governing the behaviour of special advisers and sought to encourage others to breach the code for civil servants
The Treasury's own great train robbery - 12/10/01 Mr Byers has not nationalised Railtrack. He has merely promised it money, reneged on the promise, reduced the company to insolvency and thus got it for nothing
Byers sticks to the script while fury mounts - 14/10/01
Dark arts of spin rebound on aide who called September 11 'a good day' - 14/10/01
Jo Moore was only following orders - 14/10/01 by Charlie Whelan
Tories urge inquiry into 'rigging' of rail shares - 15/10/01 Byers promised to make £1.5 billion available and then reneged
Time for a one-way ticket for Byers - 15/10/01 So long as he is in the Cabinet, the Government will be under very legitimate attack
Byers defied Campbell to save Moore's job - 16/10/01 backbench Labour MPs added to the calls for her resignation
Terror memo aide Jo Moore breaks cover - 16/10/01
Moore apology in full - 16/10/01
Public apology by Byers adviser - 17/10/01
Sorry mess as Jo Moore makes her apology - 17/10/01
Spin doctor Jo Moore should quit - colleague - 17/10/01
Why sorry may not be enough - 17/10/01 Ms Moore has been at the heart of Labour's spin machine for almost a decade and knows where many of the skeletons are buried. By delaying what most see as the inevitable, Blair has not only called Mr Byers' judgement into question but also raised a question mark over his own
Byers hit by Tube cash claim - 17/10/01 he said he was increasing support for the Tube when he knew government investment was dropping by 30%
Byers fights cover-up claims - 19/10/01
Sleaze watchdog faces axe - 19/10/01
Robinson faces three week Commons ban - 24/10/01
The downfall of Labour's Mr Business - 24/10/01
Cook defends Filkin job decision - 25/10/01
Robinson suspended from Commons - 31/10/01
Minister [Byers] accused of covering up Railtrack closure plans - 04/11/01
Byers' facts challenged by Railtrack chief - 07/11/01
The day Byers was given a taste of his own medicine - 07/11/01
A damaged Henry McLeish puts his hands up - 07/11/01
McLeish: I'll repay £36,000 expenses - 07/11/01
Byers 'halted Railtrack rescue' - 08/11/01
End of the line for Byers? - 08/11/01
First Minister McLeish resigns - 08/11/01
Byers faces new Railtrack attack - 08/11/01
No reason for Byers to resign (insists Byers) - 09/11/01
Tories to increase pressure on Byers - 13/11/01
Byers finally agrees to hand over notes of vital meeting - 15/11/01
Milburn aide lobbies for private NHS work - 18/11/01 Paul Corrigan, who earns £73,000 working in the Department of Health, is working as a lobbyist for dozens of firms which have won lucrative NHS contracts. He is married to Hilary Armstrong, Labour's Chief Whip - see also Sodexho
Waiting list fiddles 'endanger patients' - 18/11/01 lives are being put at risk as waiting lists are massaged to try to conceal the crisis in the National Health Service
Byers 'damaged' rail industry - 18/11/01
Lord Irvine cleared of cronyism - by his cronies! - 23/11/01
Railtrack investors step up Byers fight - 29/11/01 there is a growing number of contradictions in his account of events surrounding the group's administration
Jo Moore caught burying bad news again - 29/11/01 she ordered civil servants to brief selected journalists about Railtrack under cover of the Chancellor's pre-Budget report
Spin doctor Jo Moore under fresh fire - 29/11/01
Jo Moore cast adrift by ministers and officials - 30/11/01 senior figures at Westminster lined up to accuse her publicly of having a "corrosive" effect on the Government... raising fresh doubts about Mr Byers's judgment for defending her
LibDem probe call over adviser's conduct - 01/12/01 Jo Moore
Probe after new Labour expenses row - 02/12/01
MPs' watchdog savages Speaker - 05/12/01
Political rottweiler ready to bite back - 05/12/01
MPs of all parties were investigated - 05/12/01
Sleaze watchdog row deepens - 05/12/01
Speaker hits back in sleaze row - 05/12/01
Sleaze watchdog's plea to MPs - 06/12/01
Standards body backs MPs watchdog - 07/12/01
Tory leader mocks 'childlike' ministers - 07/12/01 he renewed his calls for an inquiry into claims that civil servants had briefed journalists against Ms Filkin
Minister refuses to quit in £40,000 expenses row - 11/12/01
Prisons chief 'forced to quit' - 17/12/01 pushed out of his job in "an appallingly underhand way" by ministers
Bell backs Filkin over 'whisperers' - 22/12/01
A woman scorned - 22/12/01 When a ministerial source recently suggested that Filkin had been a member of the International Marxist Group, she replied: "There's more chance of me being a lap-dancer"
Filkin accuses Vaz of collusion - 24/12/01
MP in cash-for-no-questions row - 11/01/02
Labour vent fury at McLeish aide - 26/01/02
Simon Heffer: In the sleaze league, the last lot were amateurs - 03/02/02
Sleaze watchdog named - 06/02/02
Vaz 'should be suspended for a month' - 08/02/02
Vaz faces Commons suspension - 08/02/02
Vaz comes out fighting - 08/02/02
Commons suspension as MPs condemn Vaz - 09/02/02
Papers mull fall of Vaz - 09/02/02
Our part in his downfall - 10/02/02 Telegraph men catch corrupt Labourite Vaz
Blair pushed through deal for Indian billionaire who gave Labour £125,000 - 10/02/02 Lakshmi Mittal
How Labour donation swung deal for tycoon - 10/02/02 Lakshmi Mittal
Buying favours - 10/02/02 The embarrassingly short period of time separating the Mittal donation to the Labour Party and Mr Blair's letter to the Romanian Prime Minister raises many questions
Blair defends deal with Indian billionaire - 11/02/02
Blair defends business support - 11/02/02
Mittal: I gave cash to re-elect Labour - 12/02/02
Tory pressure over Mittal row - 12/02/02
Vaz apologises to MPs - 13/02/02
Blair's bad sleaze day - 13/02/02
Under-fire Blair slams 'Garbagegate' - 13/02/02
Q&A: 'Garbagegate' - 14/02/02
Blair on rack as donor friend is deleted - 14/02/02
How Blair tipped sale Mittal's way - 14/02/02
Senior Downing St aide is link to donation and deal - 14/02/02
Timeline: Labour donor row - 14/02/02
Mr Blair's signature - 14/02/02
Blair-backed tycoon 'cost firm £5m' - 14/02/02
Tories urge Blair aide's sacking - 14/02/02
New sleaze watchdog's pledge - 14/02/02
Blair must remove Powell, say Tories - 15/02/02
Prime Minister feels the heat of steel row - 15/02/02 a tide of 'sleaze' is lapping at the door of Number 10
New Sidex firm 'has not paid insurance' - 15/02/02 Blair's favoured steel firm has not paid health and unemployment insurance for its 27,000 workers for almost three months
Questions for the PM - 15/02/02

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Filkin says Labour is prone to corruption - 16/02/02
Make ministers face scrutiny, says Filkin - 16/02/02
Tories call for envoy to give evidence on Mittal - 16/02/02
MPs 'hampered' sleaze inquiries - 16/02/02
Labour now sleazier than Tories, says new poll - 17/02/02 most people believe Tony Blair does political favours for rich businessmen who donate money to the Labour party
Labour tops sleaze poll - 17/02/02 60% think Labour appears "sleazy and disreputable"
Lies, damned lies and Labour spin - 17/02/02 Can we trust a single word the government says?
Labour's cash, cronies and favours - 17/02/02
Donors, diplomats and spin doctors: key players behind the scenes in the rows that rocked the government's credibility - 17/02/02
Sunday Times leader: A soiled reputation - 17/02/02 the government is finally paying the price of its arrogance and contempt for anyone who questions it
King Tony exiles blame from his personal rule - 17/02/02 Mr Blair, like a vain Stuart king claiming divine right to rule, is never to blame
Labour pushed through £70m 'soft' loan for Mittal steel deal - 17/02/02
Now Tony Blair must steel himself for more scandal - 17/02/02
Telegraph: As we were saying Does Blair seriously expect us to believe that he would have written his letter if the donation had not been made or promised?"
Mr Blair is bored with being 'British-based' - 17/02/02 His description of the Mittal affair as "Garbagegate" was not only juvenile but a gross misjudgment
Sixsmith fights on over resignation - 17/02/02 the departing media chief at the Department of Transport is contradicting key elements of Downing Street's version of events
Labour denies Mittal loan 'cover up' - 17/02/02
Tories call for inquiry into Mittal loan - 17/02/02
Blair's pal Mittal tried to block British exports - 18/02/02
A pretty straight sort of guy? - 18/02/02 Blair has actually acted against British interests in order to advance the interests of a foreigner who happened to have given £125,000 to Labour
Blair silent on Mittal's US links - 18/02/02
Donation followed contract with NHS - 18/02/02 A businessman made a £50,000 donation to the Labour Party shortly after his company had been awarded a £17 million contract to supply the NHS with vaccines
An embarrasment of riches - 18/02/02 why are Labour MPs so susceptible to housing scandals?
Ministers need sleaze watchdog - MP - 18/02/02
Steel boss blasts 'naive' Blair - 19/02/02
Mittal does not have to pay tax in Britain - 20/02/02
We'll still take big gifts, says Labour - 21/02/02
New twist in Steelgate row - 21/02/02 the Tories took a very different view of the British status of Mr Mittal's companies
Boris Johnson: The BBC must steel itself to probe the Mittal scandal - 21/02/02
Humphrys asks Blair: 'Is it something we said?' - 21/02/02 Downing Street was "incandescent" after John Humphrys questioned Mr Blair over Labour sleaze
Revolt of the civil servants - 25/02/02 angry over the way they are being blamed for decisions taken by politicians
Byers brings Whitehall to the verge of open rebellion Again, Labour fails to answer the charges - 25/02/02 There is growing alarm at the way that the Civil Service is being politicised and that traditions of impartiality are being swept aside by a Government obsessed with presentation
Bashing Sir Humphrey - 25/02/02 As details of the Mittal donation came out, Downing Street repeatedly put out untrue statements: the donation had taken place after the election; LNM was a British company; Mr Mittal had also contributed to the Tories
Inquiry urged into Mittal affair - 25/02/02
Byers row escalates over 'lies' - 25/02/02
Byers under pressure to resign - 25/02/02
Mottram's statement in full - 25/02/02
Battered Byers still on the rack - 26/02/02
The Mottram statement - 26/02/02
Offend against the line and you will be resigned - 26/02/02
Byers's credibility gap - 26/02/02
Blair backs Byers after Commons ordeal - 26/02/02
I sent two emails, says Sixsmith - 26/02/02
Byers gets Blair's backing - 26/02/02
Byers statement: Key extracts - 26/02/02
Byers admits lie and gets pat on back from Blair - 27/02/02
Time for another resignation - 27/02/02
Byers shows how ruthlessly Labour represses argument - 27/02/02
How the minister changed his story - 27/02/02
Blair backs Byers in new Commons clash - 27/02/02
Blair under fire over Byers - 27/02/02
67pc of people think Byers should quit - 28/02/02
Boris Johnson: Any minister who lies has Blair's full support - 28/02/02
Civil Service under siege - 28/02/02
Former Whitehall chief urges curb on spin doctors - 28/02/02
Minister's adviser Jo Moore 'bullied' staff - 28/02/02
Sleaze-buster sets sights on special advisers - 02/03/02
Dossier adds to heat on Byers - 04/03/02
Watchdog to summon spin duo - 04/03/02
Hattersley calls for Byers to go - 05/03/02
Embarrassing Byers must go, says Hattersley - 06/03/02
Mittal gets his tariff - 06/03/02

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Mandelson challenged over living 'rent-free' - 06/03/02
Fresh claims in 'Steelgate' row - 07/03/02 The British Home Office appeared to be acting like a lawyer or a personal adviser to Mr Mittal and not like a government department
Labour MPs deal Byers mortal blow - 08/03/02
Byers mortally wounded - 08/03/02 Labour's reliance on spin doctors has deeply corrupted the way in which we are governed, above all by demoralising the Civil Service
Clare Short's team supported £2.3m grant for Mittal - 08/03/02
Labour leader 'has become a liability' - 08/03/02 allegations of corruption are combining with a failure to deliver
Plaid Cymru MP faces Labour 'smears' over Mittal attack - 09/03/02
Smears by Labour will never stop me seeking the truth - 09/03/02
Mittal to be consul in Chatham - 09/03/02
Government targets mean bunions get treated before cancer, says top surgeon - 10/03/02 There is widespread concern among consultants that they are being forced to adopt Labour's political commitments at the expense of medical standards
Mittal was Vaz's guest ahead of Kazakh deal - 10/03/02 Mr Vaz, who is suspended from Parliament, played a greater role in the Government's contacts with Mr Mittal than has been admitted
Vaz claimed that he had not met Mr Mittal since 1999. In fact, he met the tycoon at least twice in 2000
Rory Bremner: When I play Tony, I see what has gone wrong - 10/03/02 Blair's instinct is to deny, distort and smear
Labour attempts to get back on course - 13/03/02 Blair admitted the Government had been blown off course by rows over sleaze
Mittal firm avoids US tariffs - 13/03/02
Web of corruption that shamed a town - 13/03/02 two senior Labour councillors and a property developer jailed... 23 Labour councillors have so far been convicted for expenses fraud
Mowlam turns up heat on Blair - 17/03/02 'People think we a load of shysters
Mittal snub over royal banquet for Asian elite - 20/03/02
Speaker attacks writers who take the mickey - 20/03/02 he has been criticised for bias towards Labour and for preventing Iain Duncan Smith from questioning Tony Blair about the sources of Labour Party funds
Labour peer quits over Byers veto - 21/03/02 This seems to be the first time the people being regulated were being allowed to veto the regulator
Byers does it again - 25/03/02
Now watchdog attacks Byers - 29/03/02
Byers under fresh Tube attack - 29/03/02
Byers 'tried to sneak through' guarantees to Tube bidders - 29/03/02
Labour dismisses gambling cash link - 01/04/02 Labour has received several donations from Peter Coates, owner of a chain of betting shops
Cherie Blair using No 11 to meet clients - 04/04/02 at the taxpayers' expense
Blair's Egyptian 'freebie' attacked - 05/04/02 it has emerged that his family's Christmas holiday by the Red Sea was paid for by the Egyptian taxpayer - but at the time Downing Street said the "entirely private" holiday would be paid for by the Blairs!
Blair faces tax bill for free holiday - 06/04/02
Blair envoy defends £100,000 deal - 08/04/02 Lord Levy, one of Labour's top fundraisers, was paid the cash by Westfield Corporation of Sydney, which is seeking permission to develop shopping centres in Britain
Byers 'buried road toll news' - 11/04/02 his department published documents proposing motorway tolls on the day of the Queen Mother's funeral
Labour 'struggles to beat child poverty' - 11/04/02 At last year's general election Gordon Brown claimed Labour had lifted 1.2 million children out of poverty. But the real figure might be nearer half a million
Labour 'wrong to claim child poverty success' - 12/04/02 In its 2001 election manifesto Labour claimed that the number of children taken out of poverty was twice the actual figure!
Child poverty boast 'is a mess' - 12/04/02 Gordon Brown's election claim was apparently based on a projection
Inquiry calls over vaccine contract - 13/04/02
Labour claims unravel over vaccine deal - 14/04/02 the Government's attempt to justify the deal was flatly contradicted by Britain's leading virologist
Labour donor is no stranger to controversy - 14/04/02
Party donation 'link' to jet deal - 14/04/02 Tony Blair has once again come under fire for promoting the interests of a company that gives cash to the Labour Party
Another Labour donor gets contract - 15/04/02
Labour fears donor rows will deter rich backers - 16/04/02
State funding corrupts - 17/04/02
Tom Utley: Blair and Brown lied to me - and I want my money back - 20/04/02 In their manifesto they promised not to raise Income Tax. So they increased tax on income instead!
Alan Sugar gave £200,000 to Labour on the day his firm won Government endorsement 28/04/02
Labour denies 'donor bias' claims - 28/04/02
Blair 'is losing trust of voters' - 29/04/02 many voters no longer regard him as trustworthy and believe that he relies too heavily on spin doctors
Popularity without principle - 29/04/02 there are signs in the latest YouGov poll that the nation is waking up to the sleaze and spin at the heart of government
Labour accused of dirty tricks - 02/05/02
Spin row PR chief did not resign - 07/05/02 The Transport Department has admitted it announced the resignation of its media chief when he had not agreed to quit
Byers admits misleading MPs in Sixsmith affair - 08/05/02 he misled the Commons by claiming that Martin Sixsmith had resigned - but the whole basis of that statement was false
So he is a liar - 08/05/02 he admitted that he had not been telling the truth in his earlier statement to the House (the one in which he admitted that he had not told the truth on the Dimbleby Programme)
Boss's new gift to Labour revealed - 08/05/02 the businessman behind a £32 million Government contract made a second £50,000 donation to the Labour Party before being awarded the deal
Blair under pressure to sack Byers - 08/05/02
Bleak outlook for Byers - 08/05/02
Prime Minister's Questions - 08/05/02
Gifts to Labour 'like gifts to charities' - 08/05/02 but, according to the Liberal Democrats: "The fact that these donations coincided with the awarding of procurement contracts to donors gives the appearance of sleaze"
Byers in spin chief pay-off row - 08/05/02
Byers faces Tory censure motion for 'lying' to MPs - 09/05/02 A clearly uncomfortable Mr Blair was shouted down by Tory MPs when he sought to defend Mr Byers
What happened to ministerial accountability? - 09/05/02
Rules that turned six months into £200,000 - 09/05/02
Labour MPs recoil from Richard Desmond's cash - 13/05/02
Blair faces Desmond donation backlash - 13/05/02
Deal sent shock waves beyond press industry - 13/05/02 Labour's former general secretary Margaret McDonagh grovelled to Desmond to support Mr Blair
Look no further than Byers for the railway saboteur - 13/05/02 Most likely, Mr Byers acted illegally
Rail bosses 'warned' about Potters Bar - 13/05/02 An employee raised his concerns in a letter to bosses three weeks before the fatal accident... Stephen Byers claimed that the crash was a "one-off", but inspections were only carried out weekly instead of daily
Labour unease on Desmond donation - 13/05/02
Desmond gift not improper, says Blair - 14/05/02
Labour's our thing, says the owner of Skinny and Wriggly - 14/05/02
Byers is 'hung out to dry' by Blair - 15/05/02
'Soft-****' donation defended by Blair - 16/05/02 under Labour, sleaze lives up to its name
Labour, the **** king and 100,000 big ones - 17/05/02
Boothroyd's veiled criticism of Filkin - 20/05/02
Blair trapped by Tory leader - 22/05/02 on Byers's referendum leak: was he telling the truth?
Paddington survivors accuse Byers of lying - 23/05/02
Ombudsman says Cabinet Office 'tried to block investigation' into Mandelson's "cash for passports" affair - 23/05/02
Watchdog criticism on Hinduja row - 23/05/02
Paddington survivors accuse Byers of lying - 24/05/02
Crash survivor accuses Byers - 24/05/02
Anyone have a good word for Stephen Byers? - 24/05/02
No 10 in new row over links to Mittal - 26/05/02
Byers defends Desmond decision - 26/05/02
Money for Votes - 26/05/02
Labour's pre-election advert spree 'improper' - 27/05/02 In March 2001 the Government spent £49 million promoting itself, prompting claims that public funds had been used to pump out Labour propaganda
Byers questioned over Express sale - 28/05/02
Byers quits to avoid 'damaging Government' - 28/05/02
Byers's resignation statement - 28/05/02
Stephen Byers quits government - 28/05/02
Byers resignation statement in full - 28/05/02
The last straw for Byers - 28/05/02
Blair statement in full - 28/05/02 "Steve has taken the right decisions for the future" etc...
Witnessing Byers' demise - 28/05/02
A good day to bury Byers - 29/05/02

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This resignation is Blair's Major moment - 29/05/02 Byers was the most Blairite of them all
The statements from Byers & Blair - 29/05/02
It began with bad news and got worse - 29/05/02
The lawyer who lost his public appeal - 29/05/02
Unusual farewell from the cosy surroundings of No 10 - 29/05/02
Crucial dates that led to the minister's downfall - 29/05/02
What was said... - 29/05/02
Darling leads list of candidates for today's reshuffle - 29/05/02
Boris Johnson: Now can Blair make Mandy chancellor? - 30/05/02 Byers was a liar who made the final mistake of blurting the truth
Mottram's oath-laden prediction comes true - 30/05/02
Labour MP 'thumped diner in face in curry house row' - 30/05/02
Blair defends 'maligned' Byers - 30/05/02
Minister slams Desmond's donation - 31/05/02 Tessa Jowell believes that Labour had undermined its position on gender equality by accepting money from a **** magazine publisher
Jowell criticises Desmond donation - 31/05/02
Damaging impression of dirty tricks - 06/06/02
Outrage over Labour dirty tricks email - 07/06/02
The smearing of victims - 07/06/02
Formerly canny Danny Corry - 07/06/02 one liberal newspaper described him last weekend as having "integrity"
'Smear' row adviser apologises - 07/06/02 he sent an e-mail trying to discover the political sympathies of the Paddington rail crash survivors' group
The row e-mails in full - 07/06/02
Blair 'regrets' aide's behaviour - 07/06/02
Saying sorry is not enough - 07/06/02
Kaufman: Special advisers should be 'sacked' - 08/06/02
Labour accused of demeaning politics - 09/06/02
Sixsmith in 'gagging order row' - 09/06/02
Blair and Brown say Labour is working - 10/06/02 a growing number of people think the Government is "dishonest"
"Lying" in state - 12/06/02 for five days Downing Street pestered Black Rod's office to get a bigger role for Blair at the Queen Mother's funeral
How Campbell shattered the peace - 12/06/02 Not content to deny the story, Mr Campbell alleged wrongly that Peterborough had lied, and that the lie was politically motivated... then Campbell withdrew the allegation and made an even more hostile attack on Boris Johnson
The strange case of Blair, the royal funeral and Black Rod - 12/06/02 Boris Johnson: the more that the affair was investigated, the clearer it was that the story was right in all essential respects
Journalist stands by Blair claims - 12/06/02 The Spectator magazine and two newspapers are standing by their claims that Tony Blair attempted to influence arrangements for the Queen Mother's funeral to increase his prominence at the service
Labour blasts 'pious' media - 12/06/02 The government's trust rating in opinion polls has plummeted in recent weeks amid a string of spin and sleaze stories
Labour chief rages against media - 12/06/02 Labour chairman Charles Clarke has accusing the media of undermining democracy by exaggerating the scale of sleaze!!! He needs to look at this page!
Blair defends MoD man's PR role - 13/06/02
No 10 in full retreat on funeral row - 14/06/02 Black Rod's document is "dynamite" because of highly embarrassing disclosures about the amount of pressure applied by Downing Street
It's his funeral - 14/06/02 Number 10 has confirmed that the "lie" was true, and we now know that 10 Downing Street deliberately lied
Will Blair's own goals hand the prize to the Chancellor? - 14/06/02 now that he has been caught trying to muscle in on the Queen Mother's lying-in-state, Mr Blair has become Labour's greatest liability
The knives are out for Campbell - 14/06/02 but according to Lord Hattersley, Mr Blair is "psychologically dependent" on Mr Campbell
Blair publishes funeral-row dossier - 14/06/02 trying to distance himself from the affair
Blair's Royal row statement in full - 14/06/02
Donor's knighthood 'undermines system' - 15/06/02 how to curry favour with Blair
Black Rod launches attack on Campbell - 16/06/02 he believes that Alastair Campbell has been briefing against him personally and should be sacked
Tories attack Blair over royal funeral - 16/06/02 further evidence of Labour's "culture of spin"
Curb Campbell's powers over civil servants, says watchdog - 18/06/02
56pc don't trust Blair, poll shows - 20/06/02
Labour viewed as 'sleazy and disreputable' - 20/06/02
'Trust problem' could thwart euro plans - 23/06/02
Special advisers under scrutiny - 28/06/02
Sixsmith 'not gagged' on Byers row - 29/06/02
Labour donor faces second Government contract inquiry - 30/06/02
Labour plunders public purse to pay more for spin - 30/06/02 the Government's 76 spin doctors earned more than £4 million last year - paid for by the taxpayer and enough to employ 262 nurses
MEPs question foot and mouth victims' politics - 03/07/02 Labour up to their dirty tricks again - trying to discredit their critics as they did with the rail crash victims
Mandelson on Blair's list to be Washington envoy - 14/07/02
Ministers 'thwarted farm inquiry' - 23/07/02 Tony Blair, ministers and senior officials dodged questions on who made key decisions
MSP paid £149,000 for legal aid work - 26/07/02 A Labour MSP who promised to stop working as an advocate after entering politics made almost £150,000 from the legal aid system over the last financial year
Blair denies deal with F1 - 26/07/02
I was a Labour target, claims Carphone chief - 29/07/02
£200,000 Labour donor in line for £35m poverty grant to build stadium - 11/08/02
Labour's debts top £10m - 19/08/02 Big corporate donors have reportedly been scared away by sleaze scandals
Campbell row sparks Tory attack - 21/08/02 Downing Street has been accused of setting a "dreadful example" by refusing to let Tony Blair's two right hand men be publicly questioned by a sleaze watchdog
Blair 'can't be trusted to oversee ethics' - 22/08/02
Labour donor's lover beats deportation - 08/09/02 The Turkish girlfriend of a Labour donor has avoided deportation from Britain following a lobbying campaign by a former minister!!!
Revenue sell-off to tax haven firm - 23/09/02 The Inland Revenue sold its estate of more than 600 buildings to a company based in a tax haven, after wrongly announcing the properties were sold to a UK firm
Licentious premises - 29/09/02 figures fiddled at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, which has now taken over pub licensing
Who cares about a Downing Street murder plot? - 05/10/02
Hindujas charged in arms bribery case - 15/11/02
Commons 'misled' on desert contract - 28/11/02
Conman's girlfriend is Cherie Blair's guest at Chequers - 02/12/02
"Minister" (Paul Boateng) defends Cherie in flat row - 05/12/02
Cherie Blair statement in full - 05/12/02
Who's to blame for 'misunderstanding' - 05/12/02
Cherie property row at-a-glance - 05/12/02
Cherie says sorry over conman 'lie' - 06/12/02
Number 10 tries to quell Cherie row - 06/12/02
Cherie row centres on 'truth and lies' - 06/12/02 all this outrage on Mrs Blair's behalf is, deliberately or otherwise, missing the point... journalists were told untruths by Downing Street spokesmen... the prime minister, through his official mouthpieces, cannot be trusted to tell the truth

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Cherie's mortgage man faces trial for cash plot - 07/12/02
Cherie's guru also advises Prime Minister - 07/12/02
Cherie's spam dinner party - 07/12/02 When did it become routine for the Queen's first minister to have a social set acquired from the phone-line small ads of the Sunday Sport?
Blairs ignored warnings by Campbell over Cherie's 'guru' - 08/12/02
Dossier on conman behind flat deal was sent to Downing Street four years ago - 08/12/02
Tories warn Blair over Cherie row - 08/12/02
Papers target 'Cheriegate' spin doctors - 09/12/02
Blair enters the 'Cheriegate' row - 09/12/02 He entered Downing Street promising to be whiter than white
More twists in Cherie Blair case - 09/12/02
New Blair row statements in full - 09/12/02
Cherie property row at-a-glance - 10/12/02
Tories call for Cherie row inquiry - 10/12/02
Head-to-head: Cherie row - 10/12/02 public servants became involved in trying to spin her way out of it
Cherie's London lifestyle - 10/12/02
New storm over Cherie phone call - 10/12/02
Can Blair end 'Cheriegate'? - 10/12/02
Cherie Blair to make statement - 10/12/02
Cherie says 'sorry' for Foster dealings - 10/12/02
Q&A: Cherie's speech - 10/12/02
Cherie's tearful touch - 10/12/02
Cherie statement provokes mixed reaction - 10/12/02
Cherie Blair: 'I have made mistakes but I was only trying to protect my family' - 11/12/02
'Questions remain' over Cherie row - 11/12/02
Cherie: The papers' verdict - 11/12/02
Politics takes another blow - 11/12/02
Blair rejects Cherie inquiry calls - 11/12/02
What are the unanswered questions? - 11/12/02
Peter Foster case - Home Office timetable - 11/12/02
Cherie's true role in Foster extradition case - 12/12/02
Blairs pay back conman over flats mortgage - 12/12/02
Caesar's wife - 12/12/02 in such a grandiose construct, cracks are all the more visible
Boris Johnson: We gave Blair a gong - and then the bubble burst - 12/12/02
Caplin rebuffs new Cherie claims - 12/12/02
&A: Latest Cherie allegations explained - 12/12/02
Conman fax sent to Cherie's flat - 13/12/02
Tell us the truth, Cherie, and we'll stop hounding you - 13/12/02
Pretty warped - 13/12/02 Journalists no longer believe the few things that they are told by Number 10
Not criminal but immoral, say the public - 13/12/02 many clearly regard Cherie as a hypocrite
Number 10 denies Foster tape link - 13/12/02
The man behind Cherie's 'regret' - 14/12/02
Taxpayer will foot bill for groups to oppose hunts - 16/12/02 after £1 million was paid to the Labour Party before the last election by the Political Animal Lobby
Foster denies targeting Blairs - 16/12/02 but Cherie did give him legal advice!
Peter Foster's statement - 16/12/02 Cherie simply passed on to me a professional view of where I stood on the case... We spoke on the phone three times and corresponded by e-mail
Cherie did give legal advice, says conman - 17/12/02
The statement in full - 17/12/02
Tony's friends - 17/12/02
Labour reprimanded over donations - 11/02/03
Cheriegate film 'a truthful portrait' - 17/02/03
Tories hit Labour over council tax - 08/03/03 grants have been "fixed" to benefit Labour councils... The average council tax bill has increased by 60% since Labour came to power
Mandelson reveals Blair's pain - 30/04/03 he has told the BBC about the moment when Tony Blair demanded his resignation over the Hinduja passport affair
The Prime Minister, the tobacco baron, the holiday chateau, and the mystery of the missing DTI report - 25/05/03
Holiday reading: the playboys and business titans who make up the exclusive Club Blair - 25/05/03
Mr Blair shuffles towards a '***-end Government' - 15/06/03 most people now accept that the Prime Minister can no longer be viewed as trustworthy
Prescott dream of devolution could become huge nightmare - 17/06/03 The Government's own soundings showed opposition running at 5:1 against the idea of regional assemblies. However, people who wrote in to express their opposition were counted among those who had professed an interest in holding a referendum!!!!!!!!!
Blair acting like president creates unrest, says Meacher - 23/06/03 Downing Street claimed Mr Meacher, 63, had "resigned". In an interview on GMTV's Sunday Programme, he made clear he had been sacked
Meacher misled public on GM food, says top scientist - 26/06/03
Tories blast 'Arthur Daley' Blair - 15/07/03 People have seen New Labour spin give way to New Labour lies
CSA orders staff to cover up computer chaos - 05/08/03
Sheffield MP suspended from Commons - 11/09/03 Clive Betts after he was found guilty of breaching the MPs' code of conduct over his part in a bogus immigration bid by a former male escort who worked as his assistant
I shouldn't say this, but the expenses here are fabulous - 19/10/03 There is incredulity in Brussels that Iain Duncan Smith is being investigated over the employment of his wife. It is quite normal for Euro-MPs to keep friends and family on their payroll, and no one is ever so indiscreet as to ask whether they actually work
Gay Labour MP 'sorry' over underpants photo - 02/12/03 he sent a picture of himself wearing just his underpants to a stranger which was then published on a gay website... then declared: it was "one of those stories that gay people have to put up with from time to time"... not corruption this time, just old-fashioned sleaze like the Tories used to get up to
Prime Ministers Questions - 10/12/03 After Michael Howard pointed out that taxpayers should not have to pay for propaganda, even Speaker Michael Martin was forced to admit that the prime minister was answering questions "in his own way"
Tory leader gives Blair taste of the Paxman grilling - 11/12/03 Blair has been caught using taxpayers' money to push Labour spin
Darling gags his transport advisers - 16/12/03
School exam pass marks are being lowered, says report - 18/12/03 Labour fiddled the results (again)
Milburn accused over Blair hospital trust - 18/12/03 An email sent by Mr Milburn's private office to the official responsible for allocating ratings is said to have triggered a sudden promotion for the trust that overlaps Mr Blair's and Mr Milburn's constituencies
MP accused over hospital tables - 18/12/03 Former health secretary Alan Milburn has been accused of manipulating NHS performance tables to give a higher star rating to the hospital which serves his constituency and that of the prime minister
Outrage at hospital 'fiddle' - 19/12/03 Tony Blair faced the threat last night of a Commons inquiry into claims that the Government fiddled health figures to give a hospital in his constituency a top rating and a £1 million grant
Healthy rewards in being a top-ranked hospital - 19/12/03 According to the Health Service Journal the South Durham Health Care NHS Trust had a two-star rating in a draft document but a three-star rating in the final report

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Tories raise stakes over NHS 'fiddle' - 22/12/03
Straw accused of covering up Libya weapons seizure - 18/01/04
Kinnock faces censure over EU 'slush fund' - 25/01/04
Minister admits strike death secret - 27/01/04
Immigration checks 'were waived' - 08/03/04 Officials turn blind eye to immigrants as ministers massage figures on East European migrants
Blair: I won't meet whistleblower - 10/03/04
Prime Ministers Questions - 10/03/04 Blair dodges responsibility for the immigration figures fiddle
Fresh claims over migrant checks - 14/03/04
Blair backs immigration minister - 16/03/04 Downing Street has backed Immigration Minister Beverley Hughes after it emerged she sanctioned the fast-tracking of passport applications
Islington faces bill for lower exam targets - 22/03/04
Immigration 'culture of deceit' - 28/03/04
New twist in immigration dispute - 29/03/04
Blunkett defiance over minister - 29/03/04
Migrant 'scam' warnings revealed - 30/03/04
Blunkett suspends migrant claims - 30/03/04
Analysis: Immigration row - 30/03/04 The Tory party scents blood
What is a resigning issue? - 30/03/04
Howard attacks migrant 'shambles' - 31/03/04
Blair's statistics can make you very sick - 01/04/04 how the fiddling of waiting list figures impacts sick people
Hughes resigns over visa scam row - 01/04/04
Hughes: I didn't try to mislead - 01/04/04
Analysis: Why Hughes had to go - 01/04/04
By stating that she had a clear conscience and then being shown to be lying, She proved that she has no conscience, which is the definition of a psychopath! Alarmingly this episode follows the same pattern as the Jo Moore incidents, the Mandelson incidents and those of a dozen other Labour psychos.
Timeline: Immigration row - 01/04/04
Blunkett describes his worst day - 01/04/04
Whistleblower: 'I am vindicated' - 01/04/04
Blunkett on the rack as minister quits over immigration 'cover-up' - 02/04/04
Now David Blunkett is a marked man - 02/04/04 This crisis brings into focus everything that is wrong with his Government: its obsession with statistics and targets, leading to dishonest attempts to massage the figures; its contempt for Parliament and the public, with evasive ministers having the truth dragged out of them, often by their own civil servants or colleagues; and its sanctimonious assumption of moral superiority over its critics.
The Cabinet dumps its dirty laundry on a woman - again - 02/04/04
Paper trail leads to Hughes downfall - 02/04/04 "We are aware of possible concerns..."
Visa pressure shifts to Blunkett - 02/04/04
Revealed: Blair made deal with Romanian PM to let in migrants - 04/04/04 which was kept quiet in Britain
What about you, Mr Blair? - 04/04/04 after fiddling the health, education and crime statistics, Blair has now faked a cut in asylum applications
No wonder Beverley Hughes was so cross with me - 04/04/04
How Blair struck an extraordinary deal to hit his asylum target - 04/04/04
Visa scams 'used to cut asylum' - 04/04/04
PM denies Romania visa trade off - 04/04/04
Challenge to No 10 claim that newcomers bring cash benefit - 06/04/04
Blair orders check on immigration figures - 07/04/04
Immigration debacle reveals Labour's contempt for the people - 07/04/04
'I am victim of smear campaign' - 23/04/04
Blair losing voters' trust - poll - 10/06/04
Director Moore to focus on Blair - 12/06/04
Whitehall ad spending under scrutiny - 05/08/04 "The government is using increasing amounts of taxpayers' money on spinning half-truths and deceptions in the run-up to next year's general election"
Mayor bailed in vote fraud probe - 12/08/04
Blair impeachment campaign starts - 26/08/04
Speaker's aide quits in Tory row - 05/11/04 whistle-blower falls on his sword
Blairs defend private flat rental - 21/11/04
Blunkett denies visa 'fast-track' - 28/11/04
Fresh complaint in Blunkett row - 30/11/04
Blunkett faces new visa questions - 01/12/04
Watchdog to probe Blunkett ticket - 07/12/04
Fresh Blunkett visa claim denied - 15/12/04
Blunkett quits as home secretary - 15/12/04
Blunkett's resignation statement - 15/12/04
Blunkett's and Blair's letters - 15/12/04
Howard condemns e-mail deletion - 18/12/04
PM used Queen's Flight for Egyptian holiday 'freebie' - 09/01/05
That Chequers dinner in full - 09/01/05
'If Blunkett had told the truth, he'd still be Home Secretary' - 16/01/05
We show that the fight-back figures are wrong - 16/01/05 Labour caught lying about the number of householders prosecuted for defending their homes against intruders
MP asked aide 'to dig dirt on gay Tory rival' - 26/01/05
Scientists sceptical of Labour's spending claims - 08/03/05 Blair and Hewitt caught triple counting (again)
Nine paragraphs took UK to war - 11/03/05
Straw facing war advice critics - 24/03/05
Labour accused of phone call tricks - 01/04/05
Children 'used' for party propaganda - 01/04/05 Labour MP Ann Keen (an aide to Chancellor Gordon Brown) used a primary school and nursery in Chiswick to distribute a letter hailing the recent Budget's new cash for education
MP 'using children to distribute propaganda' - 05/04/05
Labour activists had 'vote-rigging factory' to hijack postal votes - 05/04/05
Judge lambasts postal ballot rules as Labour 6 convicted of poll fraud - 05/04/05
Stop the postal fraud - 05/04/05
Labour is hit by lack of trust in Blair - 08/04/05
Vote rigging ex-councillor jailed - 08/04/05
Blair betrays the Crown as well as the country - 10/04/05 Judge Richard Mawrey attacked ministers for tolerating a corruption that would "disgrace a banana republic"
Postal voting 'is still wide open to fraud' - 10/04/05
Revealed: the memos that prove No 10 puts NHS targets before the safety of patients - 10/04/05 Accident & Emergency patients are pushed aside and placed in danger so that hospitals can meet No 10's diktats on waiting times
Officials suspended over 1,000 unopened postal votes - 14/04/05
Blair defies records demand - 19/04/05
Mandelson rejects 'EU tittle-tattle' - 20/04/05 Asked if there was a conflict of interest between being a commissioner and accepting free hospitality, Mr Mandelson, who resigned from the Cabinet twice over allegations of sleaze, replied: "I don't think you even have to ask that question."
Postal voting fraud is widespread, Straw told - 06/05/05
New postal vote safeguards urged - 06/05/05
Galloway was given Iraq oil allocations, says Senate report - 12/05/05
Senate accuses two in oil scandal - 12/05/05
Explosive showdown in Senate - 18/05/05 It was the first time a British politician had been interrogated as a hostile witness at the US Senate - but Mr Galloway cast himself not as the accused, but the accuser
'Fresh query' over Galloway fund - 18/05/05
Watchdog against all-postal vote - 20/05/05
Galloway 'did not query donors' - 22/05/05
Ex-minister pay-offs 'grotesque' - 24/06/05
Byers 'stole Railtrack from small shareholders with targeted malice' - 28/06/05
Evidence against Railtrack was 'thin' - 29/06/05
Treasury 'was at centre of plan to force Railtrack into insolvency' - 30/06/05
Byers had backing of Blair and Brown over Railtrack, say lawyers - 02/07/05
Byers wished to 'kill' Railtrack - 04/07/05 the government may have plotted Railtrack's demise in 2001 by refusing it extra money, in order to discredit the Tories
Mittal gives Labour £2m donation - 13/07/05
Former minister denies 'targeted malice' to force administration - 13/07/05 Byers pretends he didn't lie
Byers admits lying over Railtrack - 14/07/05
Byers 'misled MPs' over Railtrack plea for cash - 14/07/05
Tories urge probe on Byers 'lie' - 15/07/05
In detail: Byers court exchanges - 15/07/05
Blairs' Red Sea holiday costs taxpayer £30,000 - 22/07/05
Blair spends thousands on make-up - 24/07/05 His money? No, yours!
By-elections follow vote rigging - 27/07/05
Former Labour MP Tam Dalyell: "Margaret Thatcher's untruths in relation to the Peruvian peace proposals in the Falklands War and the Solicitor General's letter in the Westland Helicopter affair pale into insignificance compared to the lies that Blair has told us in relation to the Iraq war." - 13/10/05
Byers says sorry over Railtrack - 17/10/05
Byers to face rail 'lies' inquiry - 19/10/05
Galloway challenges US senators - 25/10/05 fresh evidence links him and his estranged wife to Iraq's oil-for-food programme. The MP could face criminal charges if he is found to have given false testimony to the committee on 17 May
Analysis: Blunkett affair and Blair - 31/10/05
I am not resigning says Blunkett - 01/11/05
Blunkett quits after 'mistakes' - 02/11/05
How Blunkett affair damaged Blair - 02/11/05
Labour's 'dirty tricks' over secret Cameron dossier - 20/11/05
Minister facing Commons inquiry - 22/11/05
Wilson questioned Benn's flights - 29/12/05
MP planned fake death for months - 29/12/05
Prescott apologises on tax bill - 12/01/06 council tax bills of £3,830.52 for one of his official homes were paid with taxpayers' money
Tories demand inquiry into Prescott's £57,000 handout for second home - 15/01/06
Galloway tops vote expense list - 18/01/06 as a Labour MP, he cost £1,491 for every vote he cast
Byers rebuked on Railtrack answer - 31/01/06 cleared of lying but guilty of telling an 'untruth'



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Chip

Just a few press cuttings highlighting Labour SLEAZE.

Chip

pslewis

And I thought I was a freak???!!!

You really DO have a CHIP on your shoulders

I 'could' post a worse record for the Tories, but then that would make you look stupid ..... and I'm not like that, so won't

Pete

_RIP_

Owned again lewis

Chip

You could post a worse record on the tories but you'd have to make it all up first. Then again, you Labour lot are good at making things up arent you.

pslewis=champagne socialist

Chip

unclebuck

Shut up lewis you ******

unclebuck

I think it is SO awful and terrible what Labour has done, I reckon we should see it all again:-

Labour Scandals
Police quiz Labour MP over 'bribe' - 19/05/97
Labour denies sleaze charge - 25/08/97
Blair Lies to the House of Commons - 19/11/97 Hansard
Labour MP in court on votes charge - 17/12/97
MP denies poll fraud charge - 18/12/97
Row over Blair's 'Murdoch intervention' - 27/03/98 Rupert Murdoch said he had asked Mr Blair to contact Italian PM Romani Prodi over a deal he was planning
No let-up in 'contacts' row - 08/07/98
Hague hammers Blair over sleaze - 08/07/98 for encouraging a "culture of cronyism."
Fresh questions in lobbyist row - 11/07/98 the connections of Roger Liddle, the Downing Street policy adviser at the heart of the cash-for-access affair, with Prima Europe
Tories step up cash-for-access row - 13/07/98 Mr Draper admitted being "boastful" about his contacts with the government, but rejected suggestions of improper behaviour... Fresh allegations led to more denials from Minister Without Portfolio Peter Mandelson, who used to employ Mr Draper
Robinson escapes with rap on knuckles - 16/07/98
Labour's top donors pick up key posts - 31/08/98
The Mandelson File - 23/12/98
Tories call for 'Champagne Jack' inquiry - 18/01/99 Has Jack Cunningham been indulging in high-living at the tax-payers' expense?
Blair escapes call to appear before 'cronyism' panel - 23/02/99 Mr Hart, 57, is the godfather of Mr Blair's daughter. He was appointed to the £73,000-a-year post, which was not advertised, in March 1998
Labour Scandal - Jaguar - 23/05/99
£11m spent on foreign trips - 19/06/99 The most expensive trip by a minister was made by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who travelled with 14 officials to the Far East in 1997 at a cost of £169,186
Hague attacks 'Labour hypocrites' - 07/10/99 accusing the prime minister of lying and breaking his promises
Brown accused of cronyism - 22/10/99
Robinson 'has scandal photos' - 23/10/99
Robinson 'gave to second blind trust' - 23/10/99
Minister denies destruction of evidence - 24/10/99
Inquiry into Dobson's campaign - 05/11/99
Mandelson given key election role - 09/11/99
Downing Street defends Mandelson refurbishment - 15/11/99
Brown denies impropriety in flat purchase - 09/01/00
PM's wife pays penalty fare - 10/01/00
No ticket, so Cherie falls foul of the law - 11/01/00
Robinson accused of DTI fraud - 23/01/00
Downing Street accused of forcing mandarin to quit - 23/01/00
Robinson faces fraud inquiry - 23/01/00
Transtec inquiry examines grants - 25/01/00
Robinson: I'm blameless - 26/01/00
Labour millionaire faces police inquiry - 30/01/00
Police investigate TransTec - 07/02/00
Online and on message (Blair spins on the web - using public money) - 11/02/00
Lords under anti-sleaze microscope - 13/03/00
Filkin [Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards] widens investigation into minister's 'payments' [Keith Vaz] - 19/03/00
Blair misled House on NHS - 26/03/00
Blair is attacked over 'cash for coronets' - 01/04/00
Byers accused of doctoring records on crisis at Rover - 06/04/00
Vaz 'promised solicitor a place on honours list' - 09/04/00
MPs delay report on Prescott flat - 19/04/00 The Labour-dominated Standards and Privileges Committee, which adjudicates on breaches of Commons rules, had been expected to approve publication today. A meeting yesterday broke up without reaching a conclusion and the committee will not meet again until May 9, the week after the elections.
Dewar denies jumping NHS waiting list - 01/05/00
NHS advert 'misled on nurse pay levels' - 03/05/00 Government advert said average nurses earned more than £20,000
Commons misled over GM bungle - 21/05/00 Ministers kept the accidental planting of GM crops across Britain secret even from their own advisers
Alli [Labour peer] broke Lords convention - 01/06/00
Blair tycoon paid just £5,000 tax - 25/06/00
Row over peer's tax bill - 25/06/00
Blair stands by millionaire with £5,000 tax bill - 26/06/00
The reason why Tony's cronies make us angry - 26/06/00 Under the heading of "sleaze", this Government is no better than its predecessors
Tories revive questions on Lord Levy's diplomatic role - 27/06/00 Further queries raised about role played by multimillionaire Labour fundraiser as Tony Blair's 'ermine envoy'
Robinson in talks over £3m Belgian tax bill - 28/06/00 Former Paymaster General has French assets frozen by Brussels court order
Levy claim for £50,000 expenses [during the year in which he said he was 'living on capital' and paid just £5,000 in taxes] - 02/07/00
'Junket Jack' [Cunningham] goes to the races for £40,000 - 02/07/00 Former agriculture minister and cabinet 'enforcer' lands plum job as adviser to greyhound racing industry
Blairs offered cheap holidays by wealthy friends - yet again - 02/07/00
'Unfair' dome bidder linked to Labour - 09/07/00 Competitors for purchase of Millennium Dome to make final pitchs amid accusations of cronyism
Blair faces cronyism gibes over Birt's job - 10/07/00 Fresh accusations of spin as former BBC Director-General takes post as powerful new adviser on crime
Birt crime job offer criticised - 10/07/00 "Appointing Mr Birt to work as an adviser for one day a week hardly shows a commitment to reducing crime" - Ann Widdecombe
Prescott to boost regional agencies - 12/07/00 Deputy Prime Minister signals increased funding for controversial RDAs amid accusations of cronyism
BBC challenged by MPs over Birt's £800,000 - 14/07/00 Parliamentary committee criticises broadcaster for size of former Director-General's salary package
Brother-in-law lands Irvine in legal cronies row - 16/07/00 Lord chancellor has given plum legal jobs to his brother-in-law and an old friend
Blunkett failed to declare rent after moving to free home - 16/07/00
Blunkett fails to tell Parliament about his income as landlord - 16/07/00
Mandelson urged to return pay-off - 25/07/00
Mandelson 'should return cash' - 25/07/00
Politicians 'stuff quangos with cronies' - 26/07/00
Public loses faith with quangos - 27/07/00 Two thirds of people believe appointments are politically influenced
Anti-electoral fraud campaign urged - 27/07/00
Ministers 'misled' public over scale of Dome's losses - 06/08/00
Chequers servant bill soars as Blair plays lord of the manor - 06/08/00 As Mr Blair flew off on another free holiday in Italy and France yesterday, Downing Street confirmed that he spent £364,319 of taxpayers' money on cooks and stewards last year
Connery 'called up by Mandelson' - 03/09/00 The 007 star expressed his fears about being used as a political trophy
Straw rules out sex register law - 15/09/00 because his brother would be on it?
Mandelson 'sobbed as he was told to resign' - 18/09/00 Officials have always insisted that Mr Mandelson resigned voluntarily
Tory anger as minister claims fare for 'holiday' - 18/09/00
Tories challenge Blair over £1m 'lies' - 19/09/00
Ecclestone: A problem of perception - 19/09/00
Resign call over donation 'lies' - 19/09/00
Tories call for Brown to quit over 'lie' - 20/09/00
Stubborn Chancellor is in serious trouble - 20/09/00
'A straight sort of guy' - who believes Blair now? - 20/09/00 Blair: "most people who have dealt with me think that I am a pretty straight sort of guy - and I am." [NOT!]
Brown's word games backfire - 20/09/00
Brown told to resign over funding 'lies' - 20/09/00
Brown denies lying over £1m donation to Labour - 20/09/00
A few straight answers would have killed the controversy - 20/09/00
Brown faces calls to quit over F1 cash admission - 20/09/00 the Conservatives demanded his resignation following allegations that he lied about the £1m donation
Blair allies accuse Brown of shifting blame for F1 row - 23/09/00
Fresh Ecclestone inquiry rejected - 11/10/00
Mandelson leaks 'fuelled the rift between Blair and Brown' - 16/10/00
Mandelson 'lied over home loan' - 16/10/00
Mandelson in fresh loan row - 16/10/00
'Divisive' Mandelson 'misleading' on loan - 16/10/00
The mystery of Blair's £250,000 - 17/10/00
Labour rot starts at the top - Hague - 18/10/00 (he must have read my 1998 leaflet)
PM 'sent civil servant to sack Robinson' - 18/10/00
Sleazebuster queries Labour funding - 19/10/00
Inquiry into UK's 'Benz-aid' to African rulers - 29/10/00 The controversy is embarrassing for Miss Short, who has changed the way British aid is delivered to Third World countries
This is where our money goes - 29/10/00 Foreign aid is the only global activity in which billions of pounds can be handed out with no real questions asked about how and where it will be spent
Inquiry launched over Speaker bets - 01/11/00
Ministers 'making Forces political' - 02/11/00 an officer had been forced to defend Government policy
MPs were misled over liability for the Dome's debts - 16/11/00
Labour 'spins web site of deceit' - 03/12/00
Sack for ticket inspector who fined Cherie Blair £10 - 31/12/00
Labour won't name new £2m donor - 31/12/00 LABOUR has bypassed its own "anti-sleaze" laws by banking a £2 million donation from a mystery backer
'Fears grow' for Dome bid - 01/01/01 The government has been told the plans of its preferred Millennium Dome bidder [Labour donor Robert Bourne] will fail
Blair faces revolt over £2m gift - 02/01/01
Labour's mystery £2m donor named - 02/01/01 Lord Hamlyn, publisher
Mandelson and the Dome bidder's party - 04/01/01
Mandelson's Party - 04/01/01
Peter's friends make a birthday fuss - 05/01/01
Labour MPs attack big donations - 05/01/01 "democracy for sale to the highest bidders"... 11 people who had given more than £5,000 to Labour had been ennobled since the party came to power
Dome bidder's gift to Labour - 06/01/01
Wilson aide Joe Haines says Labour gave honours to donors - 07/01/01
Blair 'proud' of Labour donors - 07/01/01
Dome sale examined - 08/01/01
Comedian [Mark Thomas] attacks Whitehall secrecy - 08/01/01 Trade and Industry minister Richard Caborn wanted "background/dirt on him in order to rubbish him"
Mandelson accused over passport - 23/01/01 he has been accused of helping an Asian billionaire who bailed out the Dome to get a British passport
Mandelson fall-out spreads - 25/01/01 Europe Minister Keith Vaz wrote to both Tony Blair and Mr Mandelson on behalf of the Hindujas in 1997
Hague says Mandelson affair is not over - 25/01/01
Pressure mounts for Vaz to speak - 25/01/01 New claims have surfaced about alleged connections between the Indian brothers involved in the row and Minister for Europe, Keith Vaz
Hague puts pressure on Vaz over passports - 26/01/01
Pursued by the press, Vaz does a vanishing act - 26/01/01
Vaz sidesteps questions on links with Hindujas - 26/01/01
Neill calls for new sleaze code - 27/01/01
Blair 'must control ministers' - 28/01/01
Vaz 'linked to Hinduja bank bid' - 28/01/01

unclebuck

Pressure mounts on terror memo aide Jo Moore - 10/10/01 Conservative Party chairman David Davis urges a high-level investigation: "This is something that assaults the integrity of the British civil service"
Tories call for inquiry into Jo Moore's "bad news day" email - 11/10/01
Byers accused in 'dirty tricks' row - 11/10/01 He is accused of forcing a career civil servant out of his post after he refused to "spin" against the head of the London Underground. A dirty tricks campaign designed to discredit Bob Kiley is said to have been orchestrated by Jo Moore. Prime Labour sleaze
Byers faces dirty tricks claims - 11/10/01
Byers may be sidelined over Railtrack crisis - 12/10/01 Downing Street has tried to distance the Prime Minister from the row surrounding Mr Byers over the alleged "dirty tricks" campaign
Call for inquiry into 'dirty tricks' - 12/10/01
Where is Byers? - 12/10/01 250,000 people, whose shares he has abruptly made almost worthless, are a touch angry
Someone must pay if the rules are broken - 12/10/01 Jo Moore appears to have breached the official rules governing the behaviour of special advisers and sought to encourage others to breach the code for civil servants
The Treasury's own great train robbery - 12/10/01 Mr Byers has not nationalised Railtrack. He has merely promised it money, reneged on the promise, reduced the company to insolvency and thus got it for nothing
Byers sticks to the script while fury mounts - 14/10/01
Dark arts of spin rebound on aide who called September 11 'a good day' - 14/10/01
Jo Moore was only following orders - 14/10/01 by Charlie Whelan
Tories urge inquiry into 'rigging' of rail shares - 15/10/01 Byers promised to make £1.5 billion available and then reneged
Time for a one-way ticket for Byers - 15/10/01 So long as he is in the Cabinet, the Government will be under very legitimate attack
Byers defied Campbell to save Moore's job - 16/10/01 backbench Labour MPs added to the calls for her resignation
Terror memo aide Jo Moore breaks cover - 16/10/01
Moore apology in full - 16/10/01
Public apology by Byers adviser - 17/10/01
Sorry mess as Jo Moore makes her apology - 17/10/01
Spin doctor Jo Moore should quit - colleague - 17/10/01
Why sorry may not be enough - 17/10/01 Ms Moore has been at the heart of Labour's spin machine for almost a decade and knows where many of the skeletons are buried. By delaying what most see as the inevitable, Blair has not only called Mr Byers' judgement into question but also raised a question mark over his own
Byers hit by Tube cash claim - 17/10/01 he said he was increasing support for the Tube when he knew government investment was dropping by 30%
Byers fights cover-up claims - 19/10/01
Sleaze watchdog faces axe - 19/10/01
Robinson faces three week Commons ban - 24/10/01
The downfall of Labour's Mr Business - 24/10/01
Cook defends Filkin job decision - 25/10/01
Robinson suspended from Commons - 31/10/01
Minister [Byers] accused of covering up Railtrack closure plans - 04/11/01
Byers' facts challenged by Railtrack chief - 07/11/01
The day Byers was given a taste of his own medicine - 07/11/01
A damaged Henry McLeish puts his hands up - 07/11/01
McLeish: I'll repay £36,000 expenses - 07/11/01
Byers 'halted Railtrack rescue' - 08/11/01
End of the line for Byers? - 08/11/01
First Minister McLeish resigns - 08/11/01
Byers faces new Railtrack attack - 08/11/01
No reason for Byers to resign (insists Byers) - 09/11/01
Tories to increase pressure on Byers - 13/11/01
Byers finally agrees to hand over notes of vital meeting - 15/11/01
Milburn aide lobbies for private NHS work - 18/11/01 Paul Corrigan, who earns £73,000 working in the Department of Health, is working as a lobbyist for dozens of firms which have won lucrative NHS contracts. He is married to Hilary Armstrong, Labour's Chief Whip - see also Sodexho
Waiting list fiddles 'endanger patients' - 18/11/01 lives are being put at risk as waiting lists are massaged to try to conceal the crisis in the National Health Service
Byers 'damaged' rail industry - 18/11/01
Lord Irvine cleared of cronyism - by his cronies! - 23/11/01
Railtrack investors step up Byers fight - 29/11/01 there is a growing number of contradictions in his account of events surrounding the group's administration
Jo Moore caught burying bad news again - 29/11/01 she ordered civil servants to brief selected journalists about Railtrack under cover of the Chancellor's pre-Budget report
Spin doctor Jo Moore under fresh fire - 29/11/01
Jo Moore cast adrift by ministers and officials - 30/11/01 senior figures at Westminster lined up to accuse her publicly of having a "corrosive" effect on the Government... raising fresh doubts about Mr Byers's judgment for defending her
LibDem probe call over adviser's conduct - 01/12/01 Jo Moore
Probe after new Labour expenses row - 02/12/01
MPs' watchdog savages Speaker - 05/12/01
Political rottweiler ready to bite back - 05/12/01
MPs of all parties were investigated - 05/12/01
Sleaze watchdog row deepens - 05/12/01
Speaker hits back in sleaze row - 05/12/01
Sleaze watchdog's plea to MPs - 06/12/01
Standards body backs MPs watchdog - 07/12/01
Tory leader mocks 'childlike' ministers - 07/12/01 he renewed his calls for an inquiry into claims that civil servants had briefed journalists against Ms Filkin
Minister refuses to quit in £40,000 expenses row - 11/12/01
Prisons chief 'forced to quit' - 17/12/01 pushed out of his job in "an appallingly underhand way" by ministers
Bell backs Filkin over 'whisperers' - 22/12/01
A woman scorned - 22/12/01 When a ministerial source recently suggested that Filkin had been a member of the International Marxist Group, she replied: "There's more chance of me being a lap-dancer"
Filkin accuses Vaz of collusion - 24/12/01
MP in cash-for-no-questions row - 11/01/02
Labour vent fury at McLeish aide - 26/01/02
Simon Heffer: In the sleaze league, the last lot were amateurs - 03/02/02
Sleaze watchdog named - 06/02/02
Vaz 'should be suspended for a month' - 08/02/02
Vaz faces Commons suspension - 08/02/02
Vaz comes out fighting - 08/02/02
Commons suspension as MPs condemn Vaz - 09/02/02
Papers mull fall of Vaz - 09/02/02
Our part in his downfall - 10/02/02 Telegraph men catch corrupt Labourite Vaz
Blair pushed through deal for Indian billionaire who gave Labour £125,000 - 10/02/02 Lakshmi Mittal
How Labour donation swung deal for tycoon - 10/02/02 Lakshmi Mittal
Buying favours - 10/02/02 The embarrassingly short period of time separating the Mittal donation to the Labour Party and Mr Blair's letter to the Romanian Prime Minister raises many questions
Blair defends deal with Indian billionaire - 11/02/02
Blair defends business support - 11/02/02
Mittal: I gave cash to re-elect Labour - 12/02/02
Tory pressure over Mittal row - 12/02/02
Vaz apologises to MPs - 13/02/02
Blair's bad sleaze day - 13/02/02
Under-fire Blair slams 'Garbagegate' - 13/02/02
Q&A: 'Garbagegate' - 14/02/02
Blair on rack as donor friend is deleted - 14/02/02
How Blair tipped sale Mittal's way - 14/02/02
Senior Downing St aide is link to donation and deal - 14/02/02
Timeline: Labour donor row - 14/02/02
Mr Blair's signature - 14/02/02
Blair-backed tycoon 'cost firm £5m' - 14/02/02
Tories urge Blair aide's sacking - 14/02/02
New sleaze watchdog's pledge - 14/02/02
Blair must remove Powell, say Tories - 15/02/02
Prime Minister feels the heat of steel row - 15/02/02 a tide of 'sleaze' is lapping at the door of Number 10
New Sidex firm 'has not paid insurance' - 15/02/02 Blair's favoured steel firm has not paid health and unemployment insurance for its 27,000 workers for almost three months
Questions for the PM - 15/02/02
Filkin says Labour is prone to corruption - 16/02/02
Make ministers face scrutiny, says Filkin - 16/02/02
Tories call for envoy to give evidence on Mittal - 16/02/02
MPs 'hampered' sleaze inquiries - 16/02/02
Labour now sleazier than Tories, says new poll - 17/02/02 most people believe Tony Blair does political favours for rich businessmen who donate money to the Labour party
Labour tops sleaze poll - 17/02/02 60% think Labour appears "sleazy and disreputable"
Lies, damned lies and Labour spin - 17/02/02 Can we trust a single word the government says?
Labour's cash, cronies and favours - 17/02/02
Donors, diplomats and spin doctors: key players behind the scenes in the rows that rocked the government's credibility - 17/02/02
Sunday Times leader: A soiled reputation - 17/02/02 the government is finally paying the price of its arrogance and contempt for anyone who questions it
King Tony exiles blame from his personal rule - 17/02/02 Mr Blair, like a vain Stuart king claiming divine right to rule, is never to blame
Labour pushed through £70m 'soft' loan for Mittal steel deal - 17/02/02
Now Tony Blair must steel himself for more scandal - 17/02/02
Telegraph: As we were saying Does Blair seriously expect us to believe that he would have written his letter if the donation had not been made or promised?"
Mr Blair is bored with being 'British-based' - 17/02/02 His description of the Mittal affair as "Garbagegate" was not only juvenile but a gross misjudgment
Sixsmith fights on over resignation - 17/02/02 the departing media chief at the Department of Transport is contradicting key elements of Downing Street's version of events
Labour denies Mittal loan 'cover up' - 17/02/02
Tories call for inquiry into Mittal loan - 17/02/02
Blair's pal Mittal tried to block British exports - 18/02/02
A pretty straight sort of guy? - 18/02/02 Blair has actually acted against British interests in order to advance the interests of a foreigner who happened to have given £125,000 to Labour
Blair silent on Mittal's US links - 18/02/02
Donation followed contract with NHS - 18/02/02 A businessman made a £50,000 donation to the Labour Party shortly after his company had been awarded a £17 million contract to supply the NHS with vaccines
An embarrasment of riches - 18/02/02 why are Labour MPs so susceptible to housing scandals?
Ministers need sleaze watchdog - MP - 18/02/02
Steel boss blasts 'naive' Blair - 19/02/02
Mittal does not have to pay tax in Britain - 20/02/02
We'll still take big gifts, says Labour - 21/02/02
New twist in Steelgate row - 21/02/02 the Tories took a very different view of the British status of Mr Mittal's companies
Boris Johnson: The BBC must steel itself to probe the Mittal scandal - 21/02/02
Humphrys asks Blair: 'Is it something we said?' - 21/02/02 Downing Street was "incandescent" after John Humphrys questioned Mr Blair over Labour sleaze
Revolt of the civil servants - 25/02/02 angry over the way they are being blamed for decisions taken by politicians
Byers brings Whitehall to the verge of open rebellion Again, Labour fails to answer the charges - 25/02/02 There is growing alarm at the way that the Civil Service is being politicised and that traditions of impartiality are being swept aside by a Government obsessed with presentation
Bashing Sir Humphrey - 25/02/02 As details of the Mittal donation came out, Downing Street repeatedly put out untrue statements: the donation had taken place after the election; LNM was a British company; Mr Mittal had also contributed to the Tories
Inquiry urged into Mittal affair - 25/02/02
Byers row escalates over 'lies' - 25/02/02
Byers under pressure to resign - 25/02/02
Mottram's statement in full - 25/02/02
Battered Byers still on the rack - 26/02/02
The Mottram statement - 26/02/02
Offend against the line and you will be resigned - 26/02/02
Byers's credibility gap - 26/02/02
Blair backs Byers after Commons ordeal - 26/02/02
I sent two emails, says Sixsmith - 26/02/02
Byers gets Blair's backing - 26/02/02
Byers statement: Key extracts - 26/02/02
Byers admits lie and gets pat on back from Blair - 27/02/02
Time for another resignation - 27/02/02
Byers shows how ruthlessly Labour represses argument - 27/02/02
How the minister changed his story - 27/02/02
Blair backs Byers in new Commons clash - 27/02/02
Blair under fire over Byers - 27/02/02
67pc of people think Byers should quit - 28/02/02
Boris Johnson: Any minister who lies has Blair's full support - 28/02/02
Civil Service under siege - 28/02/02
Former Whitehall chief urges curb on spin doctors - 28/02/02
Minister's adviser Jo Moore 'bullied' staff - 28/02/02
Sleaze-buster sets sights on special advisers - 02/03/02
Dossier adds to heat on Byers - 04/03/02
Watchdog to summon spin duo - 04/03/02
Hattersley calls for Byers to go - 05/03/02
Embarrassing Byers must go, says Hattersley - 06/03/02
Mittal gets his tariff - 06/03/02
Mandelson challenged over living 'rent-free' - 06/03/02
Fresh claims in 'Steelgate' row - 07/03/02 The British Home Office appeared to be acting like a lawyer or a personal adviser to Mr Mittal and not like a government department
Labour MPs deal Byers mortal blow - 08/03/02
Byers mortally wounded - 08/03/02 Labour's reliance on spin doctors has deeply corrupted the way in which we are governed, above all by demoralising the Civil Service
Clare Short's team supported £2.3m grant for Mittal - 08/03/02
Labour leader 'has become a liability' - 08/03/02 allegations of corruption are combining with a failure to deliver
Plaid Cymru MP faces Labour 'smears' over Mittal attack - 09/03/02
Smears by Labour will never stop me seeking the truth - 09/03/02
Mittal to be consul in Chatham - 09/03/02
Government targets mean bunions get treated before cancer, says top surgeon - 10/03/02 There is widespread concern among consultants that they are being forced to adopt Labour's political commitments at the expense of medical standards
Mittal was Vaz's guest ahead of Kazakh deal - 10/03/02 Mr Vaz, who is suspended from Parliament, played a greater role in the Government's contacts with Mr Mittal than has been admitted
Vaz claimed that he had not met Mr Mittal since 1999. In fact, he met the tycoon at least twice in 2000
Rory Bremner: When I play Tony, I see what has gone wrong - 10/03/02 Blair's instinct is to deny, distort and smear
Labour attempts to get back on course - 13/03/02 Blair admitted the Government had been blown off course by rows over sleaze
Mittal firm avoids US tariffs - 13/03/02
Web of corruption that shamed a town - 13/03/02 two senior Labour councillors and a property developer jailed... 23 Labour councillors have so far been convicted for expenses fraud
Mowlam turns up heat on Blair - 17/03/02 'People think we a load of shysters
Mittal snub over royal banquet for Asian elite - 20/03/02
Speaker attacks writers who take the mickey - 20/03/02 he has been criticised for bias towards Labour and for preventing Iain Duncan Smith from questioning Tony Blair about the sources of Labour Party funds
Labour peer quits over Byers veto - 21/03/02 This seems to be the first time the people being regulated were being allowed to veto the regulator
Byers does it again - 25/03/02
Now watchdog attacks Byers - 29/03/02
Byers under fresh Tube attack - 29/03/02
Byers 'tried to sneak through' guarantees to Tube bidders - 29/03/02
Labour dismisses gambling cash link - 01/04/02 Labour has received several donations from Peter Coates, owner of a chain of betting shops
Cherie Blair using No 11 to meet clients - 04/04/02 at the taxpayers' expense
Blair's Egyptian 'freebie' attacked - 05/04/02 it has emerged that his family's Christmas holiday by the Red Sea was paid for by the Egyptian taxpayer - but at the time Downing Street said the "entirely private" holiday would be paid for by the Blairs!
Blair faces tax bill for free holiday - 06/04/02
Blair envoy defends £100,000 deal - 08/04/02 Lord Levy, one of Labour's top fundraisers, was paid the cash by Westfield Corporation of Sydney, which is seeking permission to develop shopping centres in Britain
Byers 'buried road toll news' - 11/04/02 his department published documents proposing motorway tolls on the day of the Queen Mother's funeral
Labour 'struggles to beat child poverty' - 11/04/02 At last year's general election Gordon Brown claimed Labour had lifted 1.2 million children out of poverty. But the real figure might be nearer half a million
Labour 'wrong to claim child poverty success' - 12/04/02 In its 2001 election manifesto Labour claimed that the number of children taken out of poverty was twice the actual figure!
Child poverty boast 'is a mess' - 12/04/02 Gordon Brown's election claim was apparently based on a projection
Inquiry calls over vaccine contract - 13/04/02
Labour claims unravel over vaccine deal - 14/04/02 the Government's attempt to justify the deal was flatly contradicted by Britain's leading virologist
Labour donor is no stranger to controversy - 14/04/02
Party donation 'link' to jet deal - 14/04/02 Tony Blair has once again come under fire for promoting the interests of a company that gives cash to the Labour Party
Another Labour donor gets contract - 15/04/02
Labour fears donor rows will deter rich backers - 16/04/02
State funding corrupts - 17/04/02
Tom Utley: Blair and Brown lied to me - and I want my money back - 20/04/02 In their manifesto they promised not to raise Income Tax. So they increased tax on income instead!
Alan Sugar gave £200,000 to Labour on the day his firm won Government endorsement 28/04/02
Labour denies 'donor bias' claims - 28/04/02
Blair 'is losing trust of voters' - 29/04/02 many voters no longer regard him as trustworthy and believe that he relies too heavily on spin doctors
Popularity without principle - 29/04/02 there are signs in the latest YouGov poll that the nation is waking up to the sleaze and spin at the heart of government
Labour accused of dirty tricks - 02/05/02
Spin row PR chief did not resign - 07/05/02 The Transport Department has admitted it announced the resignation of its media chief when he had not agreed to quit
Byers admits misleading MPs in Sixsmith affair - 08/05/02 he misled the Commons by claiming that Martin Sixsmith had resigned - but the whole basis of that statement was false
So he is a liar - 08/05/02 he admitted that he had not been telling the truth in his earlier statement to the House (the one in which he admitted that he had not told the truth on the Dimbleby Programme)
Boss's new gift to Labour revealed - 08/05/02 the businessman behind a £32 million Government contract made a second £50,000 donation to the Labour Party before being awarded the deal
Blair under pressure to sack Byers - 08/05/02
Bleak outlook for Byers - 08/05/02
Prime Minister's Questions - 08/05/02
Gifts to Labour 'like gifts to charities' - 08/05/02 but, according to the Liberal Democrats: "The fact that these donations coincided with the awarding of procurement contracts to donors gives the appearance of sleaze"
Byers in spin chief pay-off row - 08/05/02
Byers faces Tory censure motion for 'lying' to MPs - 09/05/02 A clearly uncomfortable Mr Blair was shouted down by Tory MPs when he sought to defend Mr Byers
What happened to ministerial accountability? - 09/05/02
Rules that turned six months into £200,000 - 09/05/02
Labour MPs recoil from Richard Desmond's cash - 13/05/02
Blair faces Desmond donation backlash - 13/05/02
Deal sent shock waves beyond press industry - 13/05/02 Labour's former general secretary Margaret McDonagh grovelled to Desmond to support Mr Blair
Look no further than Byers for the railway saboteur - 13/05/02 Most likely, Mr Byers acted illegally
Rail bosses 'warned' about Potters Bar - 13/05/02 An employee raised his concerns in a letter to bosses three weeks before the fatal accident... Stephen Byers claimed that the crash was a "one-off", but inspections were only carried out weekly instead of daily
Labour unease on Desmond donation - 13/05/02
Desmond gift not improper, says Blair - 14/05/02
Labour's our thing, says the owner of Skinny and Wriggly - 14/05/02
Byers is 'hung out to dry' by Blair - 15/05/02
'Soft-****' donation defended by Blair - 16/05/02 under Labour, sleaze lives up to its name
Labour, the **** king and 100,000 big ones - 17/05/02
Boothroyd's veiled criticism of Filkin - 20/05/02
Blair trapped by Tory leader - 22/05/02 on Byers's referendum leak: was he telling the truth?
Paddington survivors accuse Byers of lying - 23/05/02
Ombudsman says Cabinet Office 'tried to block investigation' into Mandelson's "cash for passports" affair - 23/05/02
Watchdog criticism on Hinduja row - 23/05/02
Paddington survivors accuse Byers of lying - 24/05/02
Crash survivor accuses Byers - 24/05/02
Anyone have a good word for Stephen Byers? - 24/05/02
No 10 in new row over links to Mittal - 26/05/02
Byers defends Desmond decision - 26/05/02
Money for Votes - 26/05/02
Labour's pre-election advert spree 'improper' - 27/05/02 In March 2001 the Government spent £49 million promoting itself, prompting claims that public funds had been used to pump out Labour propaganda
Byers questioned over Express sale - 28/05/02
Byers quits to avoid 'damaging Government' - 28/05/02
Byers's resignation statement - 28/05/02
Stephen Byers quits government - 28/05/02
Byers resignation statement in full - 28/05/02
The last straw for Byers - 28/05/02
Blair statement in full - 28/05/02 "Steve has taken the right decisions for the future" etc...
Witnessing Byers' demise - 28/05/02
A good day to bury Byers - 29/05/02
This resignation is Blair's Major moment - 29/05/02 Byers was the most Blairite of them all
The statements from Byers & Blair - 29/05/02
It began with bad news and got worse - 29/05/02
The lawyer who lost his public appeal - 29/05/02
Unusual farewell from the cosy surroundings of No 10 - 29/05/02
Crucial dates that led to the minister's downfall - 29/05/02
What was said... - 29/05/02
Darling leads list of candidates for today's reshuffle - 29/05/02
Boris Johnson: Now can Blair make Mandy chancellor? - 30/05/02 Byers was a liar who made the final mistake of blurting the truth
Mottram's oath-laden prediction comes true - 30/05/02
Labour MP 'thumped diner in face in curry house row' - 30/05/02
Blair defends 'maligned' Byers - 30/05/02
Minister slams Desmond's donation - 31/05/02 Tessa Jowell believes that Labour had undermined its position on gender equality by accepting money from a **** magazine publisher
Jowell criticises Desmond donation - 31/05/02
Damaging impression of dirty tricks - 06/06/02
Outrage over Labour dirty tricks email - 07/06/02
The smearing of victims - 07/06/02
Formerly canny Danny Corry - 07/06/02 one liberal newspaper described him last weekend as having "integrity"
'Smear' row adviser apologises - 07/06/02 he sent an e-mail trying to discover the political sympathies of the Paddington rail crash survivors' group
The row e-mails in full - 07/06/02
Blair 'regrets' aide's behaviour - 07/06/02
Saying sorry is not enough - 07/06/02
Kaufman: Special advisers should be 'sacked' - 08/06/02
Labour accused of demeaning politics - 09/06/02
Sixsmith in 'gagging order row' - 09/06/02
Blair and Brown say Labour is working - 10/06/02 a growing number of people think the Government is "dishonest"
"Lying" in state - 12/06/02 for five days Downing Street pestered Black Rod's office to get a bigger role for Blair at the Queen Mother's funeral
How Campbell shattered the peace - 12/06/02 Not content to deny the story, Mr Campbell alleged wrongly that Peterborough had lied, and that the lie was politically motivated... then Campbell withdrew the allegation and made an even more hostile attack on Boris Johnson
The strange case of Blair, the royal funeral and Black Rod - 12/06/02 Boris Johnson: the more that the affair was investigated, the clearer it was that the story was right in all essential respects
Journalist stands by Blair claims - 12/06/02 The Spectator magazine and two newspapers are standing by their claims that Tony Blair attempted to influence arrangements for the Queen Mother's funeral to increase his prominence at the service
Labour blasts 'pious' media - 12/06/02 The government's trust rating in opinion polls has plummeted in recent weeks amid a string of spin and sleaze stories
Labour chief rages against media - 12/06/02 Labour chairman Charles Clarke has accusing the media of undermining democracy by exaggerating the scale of sleaze!!! He needs to look at this page!
Blair defends MoD man's PR role - 13/06/02
No 10 in full retreat on funeral row - 14/06/02 Black Rod's document is "dynamite" because of highly embarrassing disclosures about the amount of pressure applied by Downing Street
It's his funeral - 14/06/02 Number 10 has confirmed that the "lie" was true, and we now know that 10 Downing Street deliberately lied
Will Blair's own goals hand the prize to the Chancellor? - 14/06/02 now that he has been caught trying to muscle in on the Queen Mother's lying-in-state, Mr Blair has become Labour's greatest liability
The knives are out for Campbell - 14/06/02 but according to Lord Hattersley, Mr Blair is "psychologically dependent" on Mr Campbell
Blair publishes funeral-row dossier - 14/06/02 trying to distance himself from the affair
Blair's Royal row statement in full - 14/06/02
Donor's knighthood 'undermines system' - 15/06/02 how to curry favour with Blair
Black Rod launches attack on Campbell - 16/06/02 he believes that Alastair Campbell has been briefing against him personally and should be sacked
Tories attack Blair over royal funeral - 16/06/02 further evidence of Labour's "culture of spin"
Curb Campbell's powers over civil servants, says watchdog - 18/06/02
56pc don't trust Blair, poll shows - 20/06/02
Labour viewed as 'sleazy and disreputable' - 20/06/02
'Trust problem' could thwart euro plans - 23/06/02
Special advisers under scrutiny - 28/06/02
Sixsmith 'not gagged' on Byers row - 29/06/02
Labour donor faces second Government contract inquiry - 30/06/02
Labour plunders public purse to pay more for spin - 30/06/02 the Government's 76 spin doctors earned more than £4 million last year - paid for by the taxpayer and enough to employ 262 nurses
MEPs question foot and mouth victims' politics - 03/07/02 Labour up to their dirty tricks again - trying to discredit their critics as they did with the rail crash victims
Mandelson on Blair's list to be Washington envoy - 14/07/02
Ministers 'thwarted farm inquiry' - 23/07/02 Tony Blair, ministers and senior officials dodged questions on who made key decisions
MSP paid £149,000 for legal aid work - 26/07/02 A Labour MSP who promised to stop working as an advocate after entering politics made almost £150,000 from the legal aid system over the last financial year
Blair denies deal with F1 - 26/07/02
I was a Labour target, claims Carphone chief - 29/07/02
£200,000 Labour donor in line for £35m poverty grant to build stadium - 11/08/02
Labour's debts top £10m - 19/08/02 Big corporate donors have reportedly been scared away by sleaze scandals
Campbell row sparks Tory attack - 21/08/02 Downing Street has been accused of setting a "dreadful example" by refusing to let Tony Blair's two right hand men be publicly questioned by a sleaze watchdog
Blair 'can't be trusted to oversee ethics' - 22/08/02
Labour donor's lover beats deportation - 08/09/02 The Turkish girlfriend of a Labour donor has avoided deportation from Britain following a lobbying campaign by a former minister!!!
Revenue sell-off to tax haven firm - 23/09/02 The Inland Revenue sold its estate of more than 600 buildings to a company based in a tax haven, after wrongly announcing the properties were sold to a UK firm
Licentious premises - 29/09/02 figures fiddled at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, which has now taken over pub licensing
Who cares about a Downing Street murder plot? - 05/10/02
Hindujas charged in arms bribery case - 15/11/02
Commons 'misled' on desert contract - 28/11/02
Conman's girlfriend is Cherie Blair's guest at Chequers - 02/12/02
"Minister" (Paul Boateng) defends Cherie in flat row - 05/12/02
Cherie Blair statement in full - 05/12/02
Who's to blame for 'misunderstanding' - 05/12/02
Cherie property row at-a-glance - 05/12/02
Cherie says sorry over conman 'lie' - 06/12/02
Number 10 tries to quell Cherie row - 06/12/02
Cherie row centres on 'truth and lies' - 06/12/02 all this outrage on Mrs Blair's behalf is, deliberately or otherwise, missing the point... journalists were told untruths by Downing Street spokesmen... the prime minister, through his official mouthpieces, cannot be trusted to tell the truth

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Cherie's mortgage man faces trial for cash plot - 07/12/02
Cherie's guru also advises Prime Minister - 07/12/02
Cherie's spam dinner party - 07/12/02 When did it become routine for the Queen's first minister to have a social set acquired from the phone-line small ads of the Sunday Sport?
Blairs ignored warnings by Campbell over Cherie's 'guru' - 08/12/02
Dossier on conman behind flat deal was sent to Downing Street four years ago - 08/12/02
Tories warn Blair over Cherie row - 08/12/02
Papers target 'Cheriegate' spin doctors - 09/12/02
Blair enters the 'Cheriegate' row - 09/12/02 He entered Downing Street promising to be whiter than white
More twists in Cherie Blair case - 09/12/02
New Blair row statements in full - 09/12/02
Cherie property row at-a-glance - 10/12/02
Tories call for Cherie row inquiry - 10/12/02
Head-to-head: Cherie row - 10/12/02 public servants became involved in trying to spin her way out of it
Cherie's London lifestyle - 10/12/02
New storm over Cherie phone call - 10/12/02
Can Blair end 'Cheriegate'? - 10/12/02
Cherie Blair to make statement - 10/12/02
Cherie says 'sorry' for Foster dealings - 10/12/02
Q&A: Cherie's speech - 10/12/02
Cherie's tearful touch - 10/12/02
Cherie statement provokes mixed reaction - 10/12/02
Cherie Blair: 'I have made mistakes but I was only trying to protect my family' - 11/12/02
'Questions remain' over Cherie row - 11/12/02
Cherie: The papers' verdict - 11/12/02
Politics takes another blow - 11/12/02
Blair rejects Cherie inquiry calls - 11/12/02
What are the unanswered questions? - 11/12/02
Peter Foster case - Home Office timetable - 11/12/02
Cherie's true role in Foster extradition case - 12/12/02
Blairs pay back conman over flats mortgage - 12/12/02
Caesar's wife - 12/12/02 in such a grandiose construct, cracks are all the more visible
Boris Johnson: We gave Blair a gong - and then the bubble burst - 12/12/02
Caplin rebuffs new Cherie claims - 12/12/02
&A: Latest Cherie allegations explained - 12/12/02
Conman fax sent to Cherie's flat - 13/12/02
Tell us the truth, Cherie, and we'll stop hounding you - 13/12/02
Pretty warped - 13/12/02 Journalists no longer believe the few things that they are told by Number 10
Not criminal but immoral, say the public - 13/12/02 many clearly regard Cherie as a hypocrite
Number 10 denies Foster tape link - 13/12/02
The man behind Cherie's 'regret' - 14/12/02
Taxpayer will foot bill for groups to oppose hunts - 16/12/02 after £1 million was paid to the Labour Party before the last election by the Political Animal Lobby
Foster denies targeting Blairs - 16/12/02 but Cherie did give him legal advice!
Peter Foster's statement - 16/12/02 Cherie simply passed on to me a professional view of where I stood on the case... We spoke on the phone three times and corresponded by e-mail
Cherie did give legal advice, says conman - 17/12/02
The statement in full - 17/12/02
Tony's friends - 17/12/02
Labour reprimanded over donations - 11/02/03
Cheriegate film 'a truthful portrait' - 17/02/03
Tories hit Labour over council tax - 08/03/03 grants have been "fixed" to benefit Labour councils... The average council tax bill has increased by 60% since Labour came to power
Mandelson reveals Blair's pain - 30/04/03 he has told the BBC about the moment when Tony Blair demanded his resignation over the Hinduja passport affair
The Prime Minister, the tobacco baron, the holiday chateau, and the mystery of the missing DTI report - 25/05/03
Holiday reading: the playboys and business titans who make up the exclusive Club Blair - 25/05/03
Mr Blair shuffles towards a '***-end Government' - 15/06/03 most people now accept that the Prime Minister can no longer be viewed as trustworthy
Prescott dream of devolution could become huge nightmare - 17/06/03 The Government's own soundings showed opposition running at 5:1 against the idea of regional assemblies. However, people who wrote in to express their opposition were counted among those who had professed an interest in holding a referendum!!!!!!!!!
Blair acting like president creates unrest, says Meacher - 23/06/03 Downing Street claimed Mr Meacher, 63, had "resigned". In an interview on GMTV's Sunday Programme, he made clear he had been sacked
Meacher misled public on GM food, says top scientist - 26/06/03
Tories blast 'Arthur Daley' Blair - 15/07/03 People have seen New Labour spin give way to New Labour lies
CSA orders staff to cover up computer chaos - 05/08/03
Sheffield MP suspended from Commons - 11/09/03 Clive Betts after he was found guilty of breaching the MPs' code of conduct over his part in a bogus immigration bid by a former male escort who worked as his assistant
I shouldn't say this, but the expenses here are fabulous - 19/10/03 There is incredulity in Brussels that Iain Duncan Smith is being investigated over the employment of his wife. It is quite normal for Euro-MPs to keep friends and family on their payroll, and no one is ever so indiscreet as to ask whether they actually work
Gay Labour MP 'sorry' over underpants photo - 02/12/03 he sent a picture of himself wearing just his underpants to a stranger which was then published on a gay website... then declared: it was "one of those stories that gay people have to put up with from time to time"... not corruption this time, just old-fashioned sleaze like the Tories used to get up to
Prime Ministers Questions - 10/12/03 After Michael Howard pointed out that taxpayers should not have to pay for propaganda, even Speaker Michael Martin was forced to admit that the prime minister was answering questions "in his own way"
Tory leader gives Blair taste of the Paxman grilling - 11/12/03 Blair has been caught using taxpayers' money to push Labour spin
Darling gags his transport advisers - 16/12/03
School exam pass marks are being lowered, says report - 18/12/03 Labour fiddled the results (again)
Milburn accused over Blair hospital trust - 18/12/03 An email sent by Mr Milburn's private office to the official responsible for allocating ratings is said to have triggered a sudden promotion for the trust that overlaps Mr Blair's and Mr Milburn's constituencies
MP accused over hospital tables - 18/12/03 Former health secretary Alan Milburn has been accused of manipulating NHS performance tables to give a higher star rating to the hospital which serves his constituency and that of the prime minister
Outrage at hospital 'fiddle' - 19/12/03 Tony Blair faced the threat last night of a Commons inquiry into claims that the Government fiddled health figures to give a hospital in his constituency a top rating and a £1 million grant
Healthy rewards in being a top-ranked hospital - 19/12/03 According to the Health Service Journal the South Durham Health Care NHS Trust had a two-star rating in a draft document but a three-star rating in the final report
Tories raise stakes over NHS 'fiddle' - 22/12/03
Straw accused of covering up Libya weapons seizure - 18/01/04
Kinnock faces censure over EU 'slush fund' - 25/01/04
Minister admits strike death secret - 27/01/04
Immigration checks 'were waived' - 08/03/04 Officials turn blind eye to immigrants as ministers massage figures on East European migrants
Blair: I won't meet whistleblower - 10/03/04
Prime Ministers Questions - 10/03/04 Blair dodges responsibility for the immigration figures fiddle
Fresh claims over migrant checks - 14/03/04
Blair backs immigration minister - 16/03/04 Downing Street has backed Immigration Minister Beverley Hughes after it emerged she sanctioned the fast-tracking of passport applications
Islington faces bill for lower exam targets - 22/03/04
Immigration 'culture of deceit' - 28/03/04
New twist in immigration dispute - 29/03/04
Blunkett defiance over minister - 29/03/04
Migrant 'scam' warnings revealed - 30/03/04
Blunkett suspends migrant claims - 30/03/04
Analysis: Immigration row - 30/03/04 The Tory party scents blood
What is a resigning issue? - 30/03/04
Howard attacks migrant 'shambles' - 31/03/04
Blair's statistics can make you very sick - 01/04/04 how the fiddling of waiting list figures impacts sick people
Hughes resigns over visa scam row - 01/04/04
Hughes: I didn't try to mislead - 01/04/04
Analysis: Why Hughes had to go - 01/04/04
By stating that she had a clear conscience and then being shown to be lying, She proved that she has no conscience, which is the definition of a psychopath! Alarmingly this episode follows the same pattern as the Jo Moore incidents, the Mandelson incidents and those of a dozen other Labour psychos.
Timeline: Immigration row - 01/04/04
Blunkett describes his worst day - 01/04/04
Whistleblower: 'I am vindicated' - 01/04/04
Blunkett on the rack as minister quits over immigration 'cover-up' - 02/04/04
Now David Blunkett is a marked man - 02/04/04 This crisis brings into focus everything that is wrong with his Government: its obsession with statistics and targets, leading to dishonest attempts to massage the figures; its contempt for Parliament and the public, with evasive ministers having the truth dragged out of them, often by their own civil servants or colleagues; and its sanctimonious assumption of moral superiority over its critics.
The Cabinet dumps its dirty laundry on a woman - again - 02/04/04
Paper trail leads to Hughes downfall - 02/04/04 "We are aware of possible concerns..."
Visa pressure shifts to Blunkett - 02/04/04
Revealed: Blair made deal with Romanian PM to let in migrants - 04/04/04 which was kept quiet in Britain
What about you, Mr Blair? - 04/04/04 after fiddling the health, education and crime statistics, Blair has now faked a cut in asylum applications
No wonder Beverley Hughes was so cross with me - 04/04/04
How Blair struck an extraordinary deal to hit his asylum target - 04/04/04
Visa scams 'used to cut asylum' - 04/04/04
PM denies Romania visa trade off - 04/04/04
Challenge to No 10 claim that newcomers bring cash benefit - 06/04/04
Blair orders check on immigration figures - 07/04/04
Immigration debacle reveals Labour's contempt for the people - 07/04/04
'I am victim of smear campaign' - 23/04/04
Blair losing voters' trust - poll - 10/06/04
Director Moore to focus on Blair - 12/06/04
Whitehall ad spending under scrutiny - 05/08/04 "The government is using increasing amounts of taxpayers' money on spinning half-truths and deceptions in the run-up to next year's general election"
Mayor bailed in vote fraud probe - 12/08/04
Blair impeachment campaign starts - 26/08/04
Speaker's aide quits in Tory row - 05/11/04 whistle-blower falls on his sword
Blairs defend private flat rental - 21/11/04
Blunkett denies visa 'fast-track' - 28/11/04
Fresh complaint in Blunkett row - 30/11/04
Blunkett faces new visa questions - 01/12/04
Watchdog to probe Blunkett ticket - 07/12/04
Fresh Blunkett visa claim denied - 15/12/04
Blunkett quits as home secretary - 15/12/04
Blunkett's resignation statement - 15/12/04
Blunkett's and Blair's letters - 15/12/04
Howard condemns e-mail deletion - 18/12/04
PM used Queen's Flight for Egyptian holiday 'freebie' - 09/01/05
That Chequers dinner in full - 09/01/05
'If Blunkett had told the truth, he'd still be Home Secretary' - 16/01/05
We show that the fight-back figures are wrong - 16/01/05 Labour caught lying about the number of householders prosecuted for defending their homes against intruders
MP asked aide 'to dig dirt on gay Tory rival' - 26/01/05
Scientists sceptical of Labour's spending claims - 08/03/05 Blair and Hewitt caught triple counting (again)
Nine paragraphs took UK to war - 11/03/05
Straw facing war advice critics - 24/03/05
Labour accused of phone call tricks - 01/04/05
Children 'used' for party propaganda - 01/04/05 Labour MP Ann Keen (an aide to Chancellor Gordon Brown) used a primary school and nursery in Chiswick to distribute a letter hailing the recent Budget's new cash for education
MP 'using children to distribute propaganda' - 05/04/05
Labour activists had 'vote-rigging factory' to hijack postal votes - 05/04/05
Judge lambasts postal ballot rules as Labour 6 convicted of poll fraud - 05/04/05
Stop the postal fraud - 05/04/05
Labour is hit by lack of trust in Blair - 08/04/05
Vote rigging ex-councillor jailed - 08/04/05
Blair betrays the Crown as well as the country - 10/04/05 Judge Richard Mawrey attacked ministers for tolerating a corruption that would "disgrace a banana republic"
Postal voting 'is still wide open to fraud' - 10/04/05
Revealed: the memos that prove No 10 puts NHS targets before the safety of patients - 10/04/05 Accident & Emergency patients are pushed aside and placed in danger so that hospitals can meet No 10's diktats on waiting times
Officials suspended over 1,000 unopened postal votes - 14/04/05
Blair defies records demand - 19/04/05
Mandelson rejects 'EU tittle-tattle' - 20/04/05 Asked if there was a conflict of interest between being a commissioner and accepting free hospitality, Mr Mandelson, who resigned from the Cabinet twice over allegations of sleaze, replied: "I don't think you even have to ask that question."
Postal voting fraud is widespread, Straw told - 06/05/05
New postal vote safeguards urged - 06/05/05
Galloway was given Iraq oil allocations, says Senate report - 12/05/05
Senate accuses two in oil scandal - 12/05/05
Explosive showdown in Senate - 18/05/05 It was the first time a British politician had been interrogated as a hostile witness at the US Senate - but Mr Galloway cast himself not as the accused, but the accuser
'Fresh query' over Galloway fund - 18/05/05
Watchdog against all-postal vote - 20/05/05
Galloway 'did not query donors' - 22/05/05
Ex-minister pay-offs 'grotesque' - 24/06/05
Byers 'stole Railtrack from small shareholders with targeted malice' - 28/06/05
Evidence against Railtrack was 'thin' - 29/06/05
Treasury 'was at centre of plan to force Railtrack into insolvency' - 30/06/05
Byers had backing of Blair and Brown over Railtrack, say lawyers - 02/07/05
Byers wished to 'kill' Railtrack - 04/07/05 the government may have plotted Railtrack's demise in 2001 by refusing it extra money, in order to discredit the Tories
Mittal gives Labour £2m donation - 13/07/05
Former minister denies 'targeted malice' to force administration - 13/07/05 Byers pretends he didn't lie
Byers admits lying over Railtrack - 14/07/05
Byers 'misled MPs' over Railtrack plea for cash - 14/07/05
Tories urge probe on Byers 'lie' - 15/07/05
In detail: Byers court exchanges - 15/07/05
Blairs' Red Sea holiday costs taxpayer £30,000 - 22/07/05
Blair spends thousands on make-up - 24/07/05 His money? No, yours!
By-elections follow vote rigging - 27/07/05
Former Labour MP Tam Dalyell: "Margaret Thatcher's untruths in relation to the Peruvian peace proposals in the Falklands War and the Solicitor General's letter in the Westland Helicopter affair pale into insignificance compared to the lies that Blair has told us in relation to the Iraq war." - 13/10/05
Byers says sorry over Railtrack - 17/10/05
Byers to face rail 'lies' inquiry - 19/10/05
Galloway challenges US senators - 25/10/05 fresh evidence links him and his estranged wife to Iraq's oil-for-food programme. The MP could face criminal charges if he is found to have given false testimony to the committee on 17 May
Analysis: Blunkett affair and Blair - 31/10/05
I am not resigning says Blunkett - 01/11/05
Blunkett quits after 'mistakes' - 02/11/05
How Blunkett affair damaged Blair - 02/11/05
Labour's 'dirty tricks' over secret Cameron dossier - 20/11/05
Minister facing Commons inquiry - 22/11/05
Wilson questioned Benn's flights - 29/12/05
MP planned fake death for months - 29/12/05
Prescott apologises on tax bill - 12/01/06 council tax bills of £3,830.52 for one of his official homes were paid with taxpayers' money
Tories demand inquiry into Prescott's £57,000 handout for second home - 15/01/06
Galloway tops vote expense list - 18/01/06 as a Labour MP, he cost £1,491 for every vote he cast
Byers rebuked on Railtrack answer - 31/01/06 cleared of lying but guilty of telling an 'untruth'

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

LOL @ UncleBuck

Well done, "Amigo".

You too Chip.

Come on PSL: justify, or explain that lot, even have a go at the first 10 like I did?

Alcazar

Chip

That's funny, he's gone all quiet. Can't think why

Chip

The Zohan

PSL - Owned by Chip and UB - Couldn't happen to a more deserving fella

pslewis

Ha Ha Ha ha loook at you all ............... copying what I do

Have you not got an original bone in your saddo bodies

You all secretly dream of being as clever as me, don't you??

Pete

_RIP_

Secretly dream? Oxymoron of just moron?

MikeCardiff

iTrader: (2)

Doesnt matter who we vote for, or who's in power - they are all politicians

SJ_Skyline

Good read Chip

I didn't realise quite how sleazy the Labour party were, they make the Major government of the 90s look positively sparkling clean by comparison!

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Anyone can "copy", Pete, and "paste", too, as you've proven time and time again

Still no rebuttals of the sleaze though???

Alcazar

Leslie

If thats the best answer you can produce PSL, I shoiuld throw it all up in the air and go back to the MX5 net with the rest of the hairdressers.

Just admit it-you have been well and truly sorted by Chip and UB. You just cannot find a viable answer!

ROFLMAO

Les

Mark Miwurdz

Pete - we're still waiting for one of your 'factual' retorts...

GrahamG