Eat my (Clare) Shorts

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday March 18, 2003 11:08 by kokomero

Clare Short will have to eat her words!

Clare Short has been shown up for the political opportunist that she is, as many had predicted on this website last week. Hopefully she will be completely discredited and ridiculed as a result!

Clare Short to stay in government

March 18, 2003

(10:01) Britain's International Development Secretary, Clare Short, has announced that she will not be resigning from cabinet over the Iraq crisis.

Ms Short had said that she would resign if Britain went to war without a UN mandate.

Her announcement will be welcomed by British prime minister, Tony Blair, who may be facing another parliamentary rebellion by MPs at Westminster, who are due to vote on war with Iraq later today.

Last night Robin Cook, who resigned from the cabinet over Mr Blair's handling of the Iraq crisis, received a standing ovation in the House of Commons, while the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was jeered by backbench Labour MPs when he said the diplomacy was now at an end.

MPs listened in silence to an impressive parliamentary performance as Mr Cook told them he could not support sending British troops to war without broader international support.

Mr Blair and senior members of his cabinet have been lobbying MPs in the hope that the final number of dissenters - when the vote is taken late tonight - will be little more than the 121 who rebelled when the issue was voted on a couple of weeks ago.

The junior Health Minister, Lord Hunt, also announced his resignation over Iraq this morning.