It is as you’d think: a sea of news coverage and commentary about Liam Fox’s departure.
Some of its currents are merciless, such as the Mirror’s front cover. Some are more
circumspect, such as an excellent pair of articles by The Spectator’s own Matthew Parris (£) and Charles Moore. But, on the whole, there is a strange absence of finality about this
story. A Defence Secretary has resigned – and rightly so, I think – but we still cannot be completely sure why. Maybe it is just the “appearance of impropreity,” as Philip
Stephens puts it, that killed this Fox. Or maybe there is something more poisonous waiting to emerge
in the next few days. The dots are still being connected, the knots of Adam Werritty’s business dealings still being untangled.
So there is more to come – and it’s worth paying close attention to two particular threads.
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