(UK) No charges on 'cash for honours'

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Thursday, 19 July 2007, 21:30 GMT 22:30 UK

No charges on 'cash for honours'

The BBC understands that no-one is to face charges
after the 16-month cash-for-honours investigation.

Four people were arrested - including two of Tony
Blair's aides - during inquiries into whether
honours were sold and whether a cover-up followed.

Police interviewed 136 people, including ex-Prime
Minister Tony Blair and former Tory leader Michael
Howard.

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BBC political editor Nick Robinson said that Scotland
Yard is preparing to make a public defence of its
officers.

He said they are bound to come under fierce criticism
for dragging out their inquiries for so long yet failing
to produce a result.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6907594.stm

Just long investigations that come up with zippo.

senior politicians not to be charged it must mean that they are wholly innocent and that cash had no influence on them at all. :sarcasm:

Tho' if I am honest I might say that this type of honours pedalling has been going on for years, in one form or another; at least now it is being investigated. Give it another 80 years and someone might even be prosecuted.