Sacking Clarke will not end Home Office Chaos

Times online columnist Alice Miles if of the view that the media is letting the Government of the hook somewhat by lumping together the current crises affecting the government. No doubt Blair is happy for any distraction from the Deportation debacle.

SOMETIMES I WONDER whether the media might, perversely, be doing the
Government a favour. In their need to find a tidy order to events ie, "Woes
pile up on Blair" the media keep cobbling together the John Prescott affair
with Charles Clarke's escaped foreign criminals. So the details of the Home
Office's lamentable failure to consider the deportation of more than 1,000
foreign convicts on release from jail have been smothered beneath the more
salacious and frivolous secrets of the man we shall ever know as DPM

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