Last week the government completed review of Britain’s foreign policy, a 38-page document outlining the UK's role in the World in the post '9/11' era.
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As the Prime Minister outlined at a press confrence in Downing Street the document addresses the UK’s strategic alliances, the challenge of radical Islam, and the nation’s willingness to use military power to meet this and other threats. All very key and important matters.
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If BBC political editor Nick Robinson read the report, he kept that knowledge discretely to himself. His question, the first of the news conference, managed to dismiss Blair’s remarks with the subtlety of a brick hurled at a Harrod’s display case: “What is your advice this morning for David Miliband?” (Miliband, the much overrated Environment Secretary, was rumored to be considering a challenge to Gordon Brown for Labour leadership when Blair resigns )
If BBC political editor Nick Robinson read the report, he kept that knowledge discretely to himself. His question, the first of the news conference, managed to dismiss Blair’s remarks with the subtlety of a brick hurled at a Harrod’s display case: “What is your advice this morning for David Miliband?” (Miliband, the much overrated Environment Secretary, was rumored to be considering a challenge to Gordon Brown for Labour leadership when Blair resigns )
Blair shot back: “You wouldn’t like to ask something on foreign policy, would you?” Not a chance.
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Clearly the publicly funded public service broadcaster would rather focus on the material fit for a Westminster soap opera rather than vital issues of State.
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