LIAM FOX (2)

The Cabinet Secretary has submitted his report, and Mr. Fox has given his personal resignation statement in the House of Commons (a tradition given to all resigning Ministers in the U.K.). As I predicted, the Cabinet Secretary said that Mr. Fox had broken the Ministerial Code. Things happened which shouldn't have happened, Mr. Fox has taken responsibility by resigning, procedures will be tightened up, blah, blah, blah.

However, as I also predicted, the Cabinet Secretary was silent on what Mr. Fox' friend Adam Werrity was actually doing at all those meetings in the Ministry of Defence and abroad. He wasn't a lobbyist, no classified or security sensitive information was ever given to him, he wasn't an adviser, he shouldn't have been there. So why was he there? Bored and wanting a chat with the Minister over a cup of tea? Somehow I don't think so.

Walter Blotscher