The Beeb and the Guardian report that a Labour Party fund raising event last Wednesday auctioned a copy of the Hutton Report into the tragic death of government scientist Dr David Kelly. The story originally surfaced in the Mail on Sunday at the weekend.
The 'attraction' of this particular lot was that it had been signed – for reasons unknown – by Cherie Blair, as well as by spinmaster Alistair Campbell. Note that Cherie signed it as the wife of the Prime Minister, not under her professional name of Cherie Booth.
To treat such a serious document as a trophy or curiosity – especially when many people considered it a Government whitewash – is in outrageously bad taste, though typical for this government which looks with scorn on anyone outside itself. And what did Mrs. Blair have to do with the report anyway?
Conservative MP Stewart Jackson has proposed an Early Day Motion [EDM 2224] criticising the auction, which we hope will be well supported.
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