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February 12th, 2003.
John Reid, Labour party chairman, on whether the massing of troops at Heathrow airport is a ‘publicity stunt’:

“It was precisely the suggestion that any government, this government included, would use such a serious subject as international terrorism, which gave us such things as New York, for their own purposes of spin or public relations, that I found pretty contemptible.”

September 11th, 2001.
Jo Moore, special adviser to the secretary of state for transport:

“It’s now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury”.

Posted at 10am on 13/02/03 by Leon McDermott to the politics category.
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  1. Politician in hypocrisy shocker!

    Posted by Jack at 1pm on 17.02.03

  2. I know, I know, but it was just too blatant a discrepancy to miss.

    Posted by Leon at 2pm on 17.02.03

  3. I wasn’t having a dig - flabbergasting that he appears to have just forgotten the whole Byers… thing. I’ll leave it at that given my surname. Hee.

    Posted by Jack at 4pm on 17.02.03

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