Author: |Posted: 6:37 pm on 27/10/09
Category: Gary Gibbon on Politics
Former Home Secretary, John Reid, has kept his powder dry since leaving the government but he is testing it right now.
The government doesn’t want to get the wrong side of him on its cuts in the Territorial Army training. Yesterday in the Commons the old bruiser signalled his unhappiness with uncharacteristic delicacy (column 26).
But the government got the message. The clock is ticking towards a three-line whipped vote tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7pm on a Conservative motion attacking the TA training cuts. read more
