Sniping at Tory mendacity aside, I can’t help but feel a palpable sense of complacency in the Observer today over the Damian Green affair. First up, we have the normally sensible Vernon Bogdanor. WTF? It doesn’t take a Professor of Government at Oxford University to tell you that the police actions were constitutional.
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QuaequamBlog on 30th Nov 2008 (via theliberati.net)
A look at those involved in the controversial arrest over leaked documents of the Tory MP Damian Green
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Guardian on 4th Dec 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
What the implications are for all those who were involved in the arrest of Tory MP Damian Green
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Guardian on 4th Dec 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Ian Kirby has the scoop about the Damian Green investigation: TORY MP Damian Green and his Home Office mole will NOT be charged in the leak scandal, the News of the World can reveal. Prosecutors say papers seized from Mr Green’s Commons office cannot be used as evidence in a trial. They add that cops FAILED to conduct a proper search in Westminster. The conclusions, in a secret early review ...
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Spectator on 7th Dec 2008 (via spectator.co.uk)
Damian Green's rise in the Tory party has been marked by effective attacks on the Home Office and a series of tensions with other Tories.
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PoliticsCoUk on 30th Nov 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
Damian Green's rise in the Tory party has been marked by effective attacks on the Home Office and a series of tensions with other Tories.
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PoliticsCoUk on 28th Nov 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
Damian Green the Tory MP said he is "very pleased" with the decision not to prosecute him over the Home Office leaks affair adding that he had simply been doing his job by exposing Government failings.
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Telegraph on 16th Apr 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Conservative MPs expressed their fury today over the decision by the police to arrest Damian Green in connection with a government leak inquiry. The shadow immigration minister's Tory colleagues believe that, in publishing documents allegedly provided by a whistleblower, Green was doing his job as an opposition MP, not breaking the law. And the Tories are particularly angry about the manner i...
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Guardian on 28th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
MPs are to debate the police raid on the House of Commons office of Tory frontbencher Damian Green amid deepening concern over the role played by Speaker Michael Martin.
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Telegraph on 8th Dec 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The Government's first reaction to a problem should not be to cover it up writes Damian Green.
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Telegraph on 17th Apr 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Talks to Damien Green after he was bailed as a potential criminal suspect and is accused of pre-judging the Damian Green leak inquiry. More at Tory Troll. What if one of the candidates for the position of new Met commissioner becomes difficult over the next few weeks Boris? “I’m gonna refuse him an offer he wants me to
