Werritty’s no Walter Mitty

Those “friends” of Liam Fox who are trashing Adam Werritty to journalists (see here, here and here) are doing the Defence Secretary no favours. The idea that Werritty somehow imposed himself on Fox is simply risible. Fox was under no obligation to invite Werritty to dinner with an American general or to go on skiing holidays with him.

Crucially, Fox didn’t move to cut Werritty off even after he found out about the infamous business cards that described Werritty as an adviser to him.

On Monday, Fox told the House that he dealt with this issue in June. But this doesn’t seem to have led to any change in Fox’s attitude towards his friend. Indeed, the two travelled to Sri Lanka together in July, met up socially in Washington at the end of July/beginning of August and Werritty then joined the Fox party on holiday in Spain.

The suggestion that Werritty was some kind of “Walter Mitty” figure just looks like a desperate and pathetic effort to put some distance between him and the Defence Secretary.