Should Tessa Jowell keep her job?
Vigilant Observer writes … Yet again we have the spectre of a cabinet minister embroiled in something that, to most of us, doesn’t appear to be strictly above board. But, as Ms Jowell says in defence of her lucrative position, what her husband does has no bearing on her duties to the country. Except that her husband’s client, Silvio Berlusconi, is regularly surrounded by scandal; he is a close friend of our own prime minister, our prime minister is a close associate of Ms Jowell and our culture secretary is a close ally of the prime minister. Some may think this is a situation where one person in a peer group automatically covers up for another under the preservation of friendship philosophy; others might think it is an incestuous and corrupt nest of vipers abusing privileges granted only to those who are elected to run our country. To claim that she doesn’t know the details of her husband’s activities suggests she doesn’t have a very good marriage since most husbands and wives tend
