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BBC News: Euan Blair accepts US internship
Euan Blair, the prime minister’s eldest son, is to work in Washington DC as an intern for Republican politicians.
The 21-year-old will spend three months working for the Committee on Rules in the House of Representatives - the lower chamber of the US Congress.
The Observer: Mandarins on the menu at the Straws’ cosy dinner
They say it’s not what you know but who you know. And if you want to get on in Whitehall, what better person to have as your father than the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw? All the more so if he then invites you to dinner with the country’s most senior civil servants - with the bill paid by the taxpayer.
New details of people entertained by Jack Straw at his official homes, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that on 3 July, 2002, he hosted a dinner at 1 Carlton Gardens in central London for Sir Richard Wilson, the retiring Cabinet Secretary. On the guest list was his son William - now a fast-track civil servant and a Treasury press officer.
Posted on June 26th, 2005 at 7:48 am
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More Euan: here.
Something to remember the next time Straw ansd Blair criticise foreign countries for corruption.
FWIW Straws wife is a very heavy duty civil servant, so the leg up may come from either side or both.
“Californian congressman David Dreier, chair of the committee, would be Euan’s mentor..” says the BBC from your link. Isn’t Dreier just about to be outed as a virulent poiltical homophobe who is in fact gay? The NoW will have a bit of a laugh about that, and I imagine the Littlejohn column writes itself.
Why are British diplomats wasting their time lining up openings for the PM’s son? Touch of featherbedding me thinks.
And what is going on with the Blair family’s political and moraL compass? Since when have British socialists wanted to work for a party that makes Michale Howard look dangerously left wing?