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When Tony Blair was asked for his comments on Greg Dyke's resignation as director general of the BBC in the wake of the Hutton Report, he replied: "I hope this now enables us to draw a line under this affair and move on."
The Government had extracted its pound of flesh, the heads that Alastair Campbell decreed must roll had been duly delivered on a platter, and it was now time to put it all behind us and get back to the domestic agenda.See the full content of this document
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Why Blair Should Close the Door On His Time at Number 10
But not so fast. As I wrote in this column last Saturday, the public is the final court of appeal in British politics - and the public's reaction to Lord Hutton's one-sided report was predictably and rightly sceptical.
And as the controversy over...See the full content of this document
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