So what did Damian Green leak that has warranted his arrest? From what I can gather, here are the three of the stories in this case. The links are not necessarily to the papers who broke the stories. The topics are not just immigration, as I had earlier thought. But they are all in the public interest. They all raise serious questions about the way government is conducted in Britain.
February 2008 – Illegal immigrant found cleaning the Commons with a fake identity pass February 2008 – Details of a secret blacklist of Labour MPs suspected of plotting to defeat Gordon Brown’s flagship terror reforms which had been drawn up by the party’s whips September 2008 A leaked memo from Jacqui Smith to the PM running through the consequences of the economic downturn on crime.
Part of me hopes there is more to Green’s arrest than this. I don’t want to think I live in a country where anyone, far less opposition politicians, can get banged up for scrutinising the government in this way.
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