Don't blame the system Dr Reid! You politicians are the problem '.(Column)

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: January 22, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: MELANIE PHILLIPS

THE Home Secretary, Dr John Reid, whose prospects of challenging Gordon Brown for the Labour crown have been all but destroyed by one astounding debacle after another on his watch, has come up with a novel interpretation of the doctrine of ministerial accountability. Smash his department to pieces.

In the course of an article in a Sunday newspaper yesterday defending his programme to reform the Home Office - written in response to a stinging attack the previous week by the former Home Secretary Michael Howard, who clearly drew blood - Dr Reid set ...

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