“Cameron anger at Baby P” read the Evening Standard billboards in Westminster, setting the tone of the news coverage until about now. Now, all of a sudden, a full independent review has been announced by Ed Balls – rather rapid response, seeing as Mr Brown wasn’t able to announce or even hint at this at PMQs earlier. “That wouldn’t have been the right thing to do” Balls said – I mean, heaven forbid such announcements are made to Parliament. Balls continued:
Bunkum. Baby P died on 3 August 2006. While there were newspaper reporting restrictions due to the trial, Balls could have found out any detail he wanted at any time. If he didn’t know every detail, he certainly should have done.“We received the summary document [on the Baby P case] at 10am this morning. We studied this, and over the course of today we concluded this afternoon that over a proper reading we should now act.”
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