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Blair to face round three quiz with police over cash-for-honours
By STEPHEN WRIGHT -
February 2007
Tony Blair is set to be quizzed by police for a third time over the cash for honours affair, it has emerged.
Sources close to the inquiry confirmed the interview - likely to take place within weeks - could even take place under caution.
Such a development would mean the Prime Minister is being treated as a suspect in the case and would intensify demands for him to quit before the summer.
So far Mr Blair has been interviewed by detectives twice - on both occasions as a witness in the inquiry.
However when he was quizzed for a second time on January 26, the Prime Minister is said to have given detectives a series of "unsatisfactory" or "incomplete" answers - prompting the need for yet another grilling by police.
Sources believe that for "operational reasons", the Prime Minister is likely to be last person to be quizzed by police before they submit a final file on the case to the Crown Prosecution Service. So far ten files have been handed over to prosecution lawyers.
On Sunday speculation was mounting that police will be able to charge at least three people over the cash for honours scandal.
It follows claims that admissions by one of Mr Blair's closest aides - political secretary John McTernan - have helped police discover "smoking gun" evidence that peerages were traded for donations to the Labour Party.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=433830&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
By STEPHEN WRIGHT -
February 2007
Tony Blair is set to be quizzed by police for a third time over the cash for honours affair, it has emerged.
Sources close to the inquiry confirmed the interview - likely to take place within weeks - could even take place under caution.
Such a development would mean the Prime Minister is being treated as a suspect in the case and would intensify demands for him to quit before the summer.
So far Mr Blair has been interviewed by detectives twice - on both occasions as a witness in the inquiry.
However when he was quizzed for a second time on January 26, the Prime Minister is said to have given detectives a series of "unsatisfactory" or "incomplete" answers - prompting the need for yet another grilling by police.
Sources believe that for "operational reasons", the Prime Minister is likely to be last person to be quizzed by police before they submit a final file on the case to the Crown Prosecution Service. So far ten files have been handed over to prosecution lawyers.
On Sunday speculation was mounting that police will be able to charge at least three people over the cash for honours scandal.
It follows claims that admissions by one of Mr Blair's closest aides - political secretary John McTernan - have helped police discover "smoking gun" evidence that peerages were traded for donations to the Labour Party.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=433830&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
