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To: maceng2 who wrote (856)	11/6/2005 6:25:59 AM
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Labour 'more sleazy than Tories' ananova.com Sir John Major claimed that Labour had proved to be far more "sleazy" in office than ever the Tories were. The former Tory prime minister hit out at "Blairites" who had "dishonestly" attacked the Conservatives for "sleaze" when he was in power. "I'm not smugly grinning to myself saying 'Good, they're in trouble'," he said in in interview with ITV1's Jonathan Dimbleby programme. "But I think it does point out the hypocrisy of what they said at the time: 'purer than pure', 'whiter than white', 'tough on sleaze; tough on the causes of sleaze'. "This Government has not only had more of what loosely one might call 'sleaze', than the previous government - or any previous government - it actually has been much closer to the Prime Minister and most of the people who have been in difficulty would be those who call themselves Blairites rather than old Labour. "So I think those short term sound-bites that were used with great effect, but actually unscrupulously and dishonestly against the Conservative party as a whole, have come back to hit them pretty savagely. Nemesis may be smiling." His comments followed the resignation last week of Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett over his failure to consult properly over a series of business appointments he accepted when he was a backbencher. Sir John also condemned Government proposals to detain terrorist suspects for up to 90 days without charge, and warned that the measure was unlikely to secure Parliamentary approval. "I think the 90 day concept is utterly and totally unacceptable in a liberal society," he said. He gave a strong hint that he would be supporting David Cameron in the current Tory leadership contest. He backed the shadow education secretary's approach of not putting forward specific policies at this stage in the electoral cycle, while criticising his rival, David Davis, for proposing specific tax cuts.

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