The Frostrup Support
Well now, this is interesting.
Gordon Brown has promised to reverse the Commons decision to exempt MPs from the Freedom of Information Act. “It will be corrected,” he said of the legislation, passed by MPs 10 days ago. is interesting.
Put the Prime Minister elect in front of an audience of book-loving luvvies and happy camping Hampstead liberals, have Mariella Frostrup purr in his ear, and he folds faster than Tony Blair being told to grab his ankles by Rupert Murdoch.
Not that we should expect that this reversal sets any kind of encouraging precedent, but we can only hope that John Reid’s last gasp grab for Mosleyite posterity is similarly screwed.
Posted on May 28th, 2007 at 8:35 am
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Now, here’s the kind of minsterial responsibility I’d like to see assumed around here more often:
Reid is probably just trying to make whatever Gordon does look moderate and sensible. He may not care to recline on the back benches forever, what with him being a doctor and a political heavyweight and all.
The trouble is, what Gordon means by a reversal is making sure expenses are published, still leaving MPs exempt from anything else that might be requested.