Hazel Blears, the Labour party chairwoman, appealed to the media to stop prying. "I'm not privy to his private arrangements for his holiday. We are talking about big issues around pensions, energy, NHS, education - and yet right across the media it's tittle-tattle about where he's gone for his holidays," she told BBC Radio 4.
"All members of the government are always conscious of the need to have integrity, public probity: all those issues are important. For people to be crawling over the details of the prime minister's Christmas and New Year break, I just think is entirely wrong. You've had the reassurance from Downing Street that he is meeting the cost of his holiday, as he has done for previous holidays."
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Given the events of the past year associated with Blair, Prescott, Jowell and so on, I can only admire the lady's chutzpah.
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