Lord Butler Lambasts Blair Over 'Bad Government'

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1//The Independent, UK 10 December 2004

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=591675



LORD BUTLER LAMBASTS BLAIR OVER ‘BAD GOVERNMENT’

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor



Tony Blair's autocratic style of government was savaged yesterday by Lord Butler, the former cabinet secretary.



Lord Butler, who led the inquiry into intelligence failures on the Iraq war that largely exonerated the Prime Minister, said the Blair Government was guilty of "too much emphasis on selling" its own policies, "too much central control" and too little cabinet discussion.



He accused the Prime Minister of presiding over "bad government in this country" with too many "bad Bills", and a "huge amount of regulation".

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Michael Howard, the Leader of the Opposition, said: "Lord Butler has blown open the reasons why this Government does not deliver on the things that really matter to people. He was an insider at the very heart of the Blair Government. It's certainly the most damaging testimony I can remember from someone in such an eminent position."



The Independent learnt last night that a Labour-led Commons select committee was also planning to deliver a wounding attack on the Blair Government in the new year for the way it has handled the "whitewash'' public inquiries by Lords Butler and Hutton on the Iraq war and its aftermath.


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This is the Lord Butler who gave Blair a whitewash a few months ago. What a weasel! Blair's pictures with 'my pet goat' must be on the loose. Why else would Senor Butler be trashing him?