Sunday, June 12, 2011

Michael Gove hits back in row over leaking of Ed Balls 'plot' papers (Guardian)

Education secretary confident his office will be cleared of breach as sources
suggest Labour feuding is behind the leak

Michael Gove, the education secretary, is confident his office will be cleared
of leaking the documents that implicate Ed Balls in a plot to remove Tony
Blair after Whitehall sources indicated that an internal Labour feud is behind
the breach of security.

As the Cabinet Office released details of an investigation into the alleged
leak from the education department, sources close to Gove accused Balls of
demanding an inquiry to deflect attention from the Labour feuding.

A source close to Gove told the Guardian: "Like with [former Haringey council
children's services boss] Sharon Shoesmith, Ed Balls is pathetically trying to
blame officials. He should ask friends how these things got leaked."

Gove fought back after the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, sanctioned an
investigation into the leak in the early hours of Friday morning after a
complaint from the shadow chancellor. Balls also contacted David Bell,
permanent secretary at the education department, late on Thursday night after
the Daily Telegraph published the documents. They show that Balls was the key
figure in "Project Volvo", designed to unseat Blair ...
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