The Met Needs Something to Show for Its Efforts: Now That Michael Howard Has Received the Knock on the Door over Cash for Honours, What Matters Is Whether the Prime Minister Will Be Questioned under Caution by the Police

Boulton, Adam, New Statesman (1996)

The power of patronage has always dazzled politicians who wield it and those who stand to gain from it. Now they are blinking on the other side of their faces, were such a thing physiologically possible.

On Iraq, Tony Blair is bemused that military moaners fail to understand the direction from which their next defence review will come. If we "cut and run" now, he believes, none of his successors will be able to persuade parliament to commit UK forces to fighting operations. Faint-hearted generals should realise that a European-style fate awaits them--the command of a dwindling, poorly resourced force fit only for peacekeeping and back-up, certainly not standing shoulder to shoulder with US troops. Downing Street hopes the …

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Publication information: Article title: The Met Needs Something to Show for Its Efforts: Now That Michael Howard Has Received the Knock on the Door over Cash for Honours, What Matters Is Whether the Prime Minister Will Be Questioned under Caution by the Police. Contributors: Boulton, Adam - Author. Magazine title: New Statesman (1996). Volume: 135. Issue: 4816 Publication date: October 30, 2006. Page number: 10. © Not available. COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale Group.

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