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Sunday, November 02, 2008

A Good Day to Bury Bad Data

The brilliant James Purnell has provided the latest instance of New New Labour's care and attention in dealing with matters which are confidential to mere voters. He was shuffling papers in his little red box while travelling by train from Macclesfield to London almost a month ago; and, perhaps because he couldn't get a seat, managed to lose correspondence from Gerald Kaufman about one of his constituents. The papers were returned after three days, and Purnell has waited the intervening twenty-six days before extruding an official apology. Doubtless he has spent the time making appropriate gestures of contrition and taking measures to ensure that such a thing cannot happen again. It would be uncharitable in the extreme to suggest that he was merely waiting for news to break of the Government's two hundred and seventy-eighth loss of sensitive data, which would make even a Purnellian faux pas look minor by comparison.

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