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PM shies away from lawyers' involvement with inquiry

Michael Crick | 19:32 UK time, Monday, 15 June 2009

It would mean "lawyers, lawyers, lawyers" thundered a passionate Prime Minister Gordon Brown this afternoon when explaining why the Iraq inquiry could not be held in public.

One might begin to suspect our PM had a thing about members of the legal profession. A bigger problem than with women, as Former Europe Minister Caroline Flint claimed, perhaps?

And which lawyers have driven him this way? I can think of a couple - and I stress "couple" - whose names begin with "B".


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Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    How coy.

    And en... rhymes with, excuse the typographical inexactitude... liar?

    One of whom has been cleared by Her Majesty's loyal Leader of the 'My turns!' to swan about the EU at whim?

    '..suspect our PM had a thing about members of the legal profession.'

    I am presuming a 'thing' that's not exactly positive on all sorts of counts. In which case it must be one of the few areas I found myself in agreement with our er... 'passionate' (is that another from Private Eye, like 'tired and emotional?) Gettingonwiththejobworth's judgement.

    But at least many lawyers in Parliament seem sane, if often still venal. And some can even attract followers as a consequence. Not that having a bunch of remoras attached to you through no more than self interest and lack of options quite qualifies as 'leadership'.

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