Asked whether Hazel Blears would be replaced today, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that there were no plans to replace Hazel Blears today. Asked if the Cabinet Secretary or anyone at the Cabinet Office had been involved in checking Hazel Blears expenses again, the PMS replied that there was a process underway whereby the Cabinet Office looked through ministerial expe...

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) began by commenting on the statement released by Hazel Blears that morning. The PMS told the assembled press that the Prime Minister had spoken to Hazel Blears this morning. In the Prime Minister’s view she had made an outstanding contribution to public life, most recently as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government an...

Asked if the Prime Minister had confidence in Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said yes. Asked, when referring to the Prime Minister s comments on GMTV that it was difficult for Hazel Blears to be in Cabinet, whether that should prevent her being in Cabinet, the PMS remarked that the Prime Minister was saying that the whole situation was difficult and relate...

Asked why, when the PMS had announced that both James Purnell and Hazel Blears were involved in the Jobs for the Future announcement, Hazel Blears had not attended, the PMS replied the announcement was the following day and there were two separate announcements. original source.

Asked to explain the apparent inconsistency in the Prime Minister s remarks about Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, the PMS said there was no inconsistency in the Prime Minister s remarks. Asked whether it was capital gains tax, or flipping that the Prime Minister found totally unacceptable in Hazel Blears behaviour, the PMS reiterated the Prime Minister s comment of that morning that not everyo...

Charles Moore has hit the nail on the head in relation to Hazel Blears. In his Spectator notes he discusses plans by the government to fund a board of Islamic theologians to try to advance more moderate interpretations of Islam, and then defends the diminutive Secretary of State for Communities and Local government: Hazel Blears has her fans "By the way, Hazel Blears, the Cabinet minister in charg...

My long and lonely battle to convince the country of the merits of Hazel Blears is picking up support. The Mail's Ephraim Hardcastle diary backs her this morning as the best outside bet for the Labour leadership calling her, rather ungallantly I fear, the "midget motorcyclist with the giant personality". Hazel Blears for Prime Minister? She's also grabbed the attention of Gaby Hinsliff: ...

Hazel Blears resigned from government this morning, just before PMQ's. Credit where credit's due, Mrs Blears left the cabinet in style and with conviction so often missing from Labours front bench. Yet it leaves this saga turning into Murder on the Orient Express, but to what end? A leadership challenge is being spoken of the most. I'm still doubtful about this idea, Labour are more of a dictators...

I'm fed up of Labour careerists who wound but fear to strike. The likes of Blears who want to win votes by feeling the voters pain and being seen to be on their side ( which today means against Gordon Brown ), but to do so whilst still in the cabinet. Its the same trick when cabinet minister, um like Hazel Blears, campaigned against the health cuts their own constituencies that their collecti...

Hazel Blears launched a desperate bid to rescue her political career yesterday, giving a wide-ranging apology for criticising the Prime Minister and resigning from the Cabinet on the eve of European and local elections.