Jowell's job prospects in doubt

One of the issues that seems not to have surfaced in this affair is the concern I have that the husband of the UK's Culture secretary (responsible for regulating the media) has apparently had dodgy financial transactions with Italy's biggest media mogul - who happens to be Prime Minister!

Blair said in 1997 that his Government would be "whiter than white". That means ensuring that not only should there be no sleaze but not even the smell of sleaze. I am not sure the evidence is enough for her to go yet although I gather there is now a row over the fact she did not declare that she was party to this investmenet in the Member's Register.What with this and the Livingstone standard's board issue one cannot help but ask whether we have gone too far in trying to regulate the conduct of individuals. Bad conduct is bad conduct and if discovered you should go; do you need a standards board or a committee for standards in public life to monotor that? Seems to me the press do a pretty good job!

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