Blair intervenes to sack anti-sleaze watchdog that criticised him

Last year the Sunday Times ran an interview with the anti-sleaze watchdog, Sir Alistair Graham in which he said the Government was just as sleazy as the past Tory one. At the time I posted about how Blair had suggested to the Evening Standard that funding was going to be cut from the Committee for Standards in Public Life and speculated that it was too be Graham's punishment for speaking out.

However, it looks like Blair may have gone one step further and just sacked Graham instead. According to a report in this morning's Times, Graham will step down in April when his contract ends with no successor after Blair personally intervened to ensure he went. It's certainly an odd state of affairs to be in when the man who said Government must be "purer than pure" is deliberately intervening to force an anti-sleaze watchdog out of his job for simply doing the job he was employed to do.