Perspective: From Loyal Servant to Loose Cannon ; He Served Five Prime Ministers Unstintingly but the Worm has Finally Turned. Alun Thorne Looks Back at the Career of Lord Butler of Brockwell
Birmingham Post › December 10, 2004
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When Lord Butler of Brockwell speaks, people tend to listen.
He rose to the top of the civil service, served five Prime Ministers in the process and is regarded to this day as the ultimate in Whitehall mandarins.See the full content of this document
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Perspective: From Loyal Servant to Loose Cannon ; He Served Five Prime Ministers Unstintingly but the Worm has Finally Turned. Alun Thorne Looks Back at the Career of Lord Butler of Brockwell
His criticisms of the Blair Government in the latest edition of The Spectator may therefore come as a surprise to some given his reputation for unstinting loyalty to Queen and country.
Remember it was Blair who appointed Lord Butler to conduct the investigation into the intelligence that led Britain into t...See the full content of this document
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