Beneath contempt; COMMENT.(Leader)

From: Sunday Mirror (London, England) | Date: February 18, 1996 | Copyright information

THERE are one million and eighty thousand words in the Scott report. But one - contempt - is conspicuous by its absence.

Yet contempt is precisely what Scott and the murky waters it was set up to explore really adds up to.

The contempt of Government ministers for the people and Parliament and their right ...

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