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Damian Green Arrested: What is Misconduct in Public Office?
The Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green has been arrested, in relation to the supply to the media of information leaked from within the Home Office embarrassing to the Government.
Mr Green is the MP for Ashford in Kent, and was detained for 9 hours after being arrested by 9 policemen for an alleged offence of “Conspiracy to Commit Misconduct in Public Office”. He has been released on bail to return for further questioning in February.
He has denied any wrongdoing after bring arrested for allegedly leaking information to the media.
The arrest was after an investigation following a complaint received from the Cabinet Office. Boris Johnson was informed of the arrest in advance in his role as Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority.
The arrest was in connection with alleged leaked information relating to media stories about immigration.
The Master of Gesture politics has not learnt his lesson: Politics Decoded by Garbo
A valuable lesson goes unlearnt
Just a few days ago the polls closed down to just 5 points and the snap election chatter began to creep out again. And why not too? After all, if the Tories cannot do better than a five point lead with all that Gordon Brown and this Labour government have been [...]
Change? Yes. We. Can. Poltics Decoded by Garbo
Today America speaks
Today the American people go to the polls to elect their 44th President. Incidentally, the next president will actually be the 43rd different man to serve (Grover Cleveland served two terms that were not back to back). But what impact will this have on British politics and how will it affect [...]
Two forgotten men making very different comebacks: Politics Decoded by Garbo
The Dour one is smiling
It has been described as the economic 9/11. We are told it is the once in a life time economic crash – something we haven’t seen since 1929… if ever at all. The housing market has virtually seized up and we are now all less than proud owners of a [...]
Piccolo Red Faces coming at the Independent: Top Civil Servant did NOT make Brown donation
The Independent this morning, reporting the Mother of all Bailouts:
The teams: Who’s who
The Government:
Paul Myners: The former Marks & Spencer chairman and ex-director of GLG, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, was a surprise appointment as the Treasury minister responsible for the City. Mr Myners, 60, was appointed to his new job on Friday.
Nick Macpherson: The permanent secretary to the Treasury, aged 49, was appointed in 2005 and is rated very highly by Gordon Brown. He gave £12,700 to Mr Brown’s Labour leadership campaign when Mr Brown was Chancellor.
That caught my eye - a top Civil Servant giving a donation to a leadership campaign in a political party? Doesn’t the Civil Service Code say something here? It does:
You must act in a way which deserves and retains the confidence of Ministers, while at the same time ensuring that you will be able to establish the same relationship with those whom you may be required to serve in some future Government.
Mandelson is back: Politics decoded by Garbo
Back to the Future: Part 3
Well so much for the low key reshuffle we had all been speculating about – and No.10 had been briefing the media with. As expected, Brown stuck with the big guns in Darling and Miliband, but no-one, no-one, predicted this. Nick Robinson has been saying the Tories were going back to [...]
