The Spectator

STOKING PANIC

Stoking panic: The PM should follow the royal family's example by remaining in London

issue 08 March 2003

Having had a peek through the gates of Downing Street, the next item on a tourist’s itinerary is a short stroll across Horse Guards Parade to the Cabinet War Rooms, from where Winston Churchill directed operations in the second world war. We don’t yet know where tourists of the future will be going to view Tony Blair’s own war rooms, but to judge by this week’s pronouncements from the Home Office it may well require a boat trip to the Outer Hebrides.

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