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Beckett speaks up for Tessa
SENIOR government minister Margaret Beckett visited Camden
this week – and told voters to ignore the scandal engulfing
her Kentish Town based cabinet colleague Tessa Jowell.
The environment secretary, who visited the Marchmont Street
in Holborn community centre and was given a tour of the newly-refurbished
Tavistock Square by residents and ward councillors Penny Abraham
and Peter Brayshaw on Wednesday, said Jowell’s position
should be based on “politics not personality”. Jowell
has been in the spotlight following accusations that her husband,
tax accountant David Mills, accepted cash from Italian prime
minister Silvio Berlusconi in return for helping him avoid censure
by his country’s courts over tax returns.
Hampstead and Highgate MP Glenda Jackson and Holborn and St
Pancras MP Frank Dobson have both called Jowell to step aside
from managing the Labour Party’s May local government election
campaign.
Ms Jackson said on BBC Radio’s Today programme this week
that the scandal was damaging the party’s prospects in
May. She said: “People find bemusing the quantities of
money that is washing around like a vast launderette. It just
seems to me to have become virtually farcical.” |
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