In a bid to save his Cabinet career, Liam Fox has just issued a statement, which he also read to the cameras, apologising for allowing ‘distinctions to be blurred between my professional
responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend’.
The defence secretary goes on to accept that he should have ensured that officials were present at meetings between him and Adam Werritty at which ‘defence and security related issues were rasied.’ He says that he has apologised to the Prime Minister for the Dubai meeting, at which Fox saw a commercial supplier with no official present. Apparently, the MoD permanent secretary will now be putting in place new procedures to ensure that this does not happen in future. This seems to rather ignore that it was Fox’s fault that such a meeting happened in the first place.
Friends of the defence secretary will be hoping that this display of contrition will be enough.
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