The Spectator

Portrait of the Week – 21 January 2006

A speedy round-up of the week's news

issue 21 January 2006

Miss Ruth Kelly resisted pressure to resign as the Secretary of State for Education after it was learnt that a minister had approved the employment in a school of a man who had been put on the sex offenders register after being cautioned by police for gaining access to child pornography on the internet.

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