The official word – and that means the Downing Street version – is that the refusal of Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell to fully co-operate in the Iraq enquiry is essentially a piece of inter-mandarin warfare and nothing whatsoever to do with the ConDem government. If Sir Gus feels that releasing private exchanges between Tony Blair and George Bush would not be "in the public interest" then so be it, state Cameron’s aides phlegmatically.
In a letter to enquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot, the Big G wrote "exchanges between the former UK Prime Minister and US President represent particularly privileged channels of communication, the preservation of which is strongly in the public interest".
It may be that David Cameron actually agrees with this advice but it is the absence of comment by born-again war denouncer Ed Miliband which speaks volumes at the moment.
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Do hope Alan Johnson's resignation will not wipe Blair's appearance off the news agenda.
It will if the "personal reasons" turn out to be personal shenanigans. And if the shenanigans win, then it's a very spooky/murdochy coincidence to be sure.
The Murdoch press does indeed have a story about Postman Al's "personal reasons". But Paul Staines is blaming Balls.
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