Campbell makes Blair take the blame for BAE
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell today challenged Tony Blair at Prime Minister’s Questions to name the minister responsible for withholding information from the OECD.
Mr Blair replied: “If you want to blame anyone for this, blame me. I am perfectly happy to take responsibility for it.”
Ming followed up by asking: “Whatever happened to Robin Cook’s ethical foreign policy?”
The Guardian reports:
Sir Menzies has taken a leading role in criticising the government’s attempts to block scrutiny of the deal.
Yesterday he said: “We need a full investigation to determine whether the Ministry of Defence has been directly involved in processing payments to Prince Bandar.
