Tony's Flexible Friend

Daily Mail (April 28, 2005)

Author: Steve Doughty

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PETER GOLDSMITH is the smooth New Labour lawyer who will be forever tainted as 'the most pliable Attorney General in history'. Yet just weeks ago he was still being tipped to succeed Lord Woolf as head of the judiciary when the Lord Chief Justice retires later this year.

Now he is facing humiliation and the utter contempt of many of his legal colleagues, of the military who went to war on the basis of his advice, and of the millions who believe he is Tony Blair's doormat.

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Tony's Flexible Friend

He is likely to be remembered as one of Tony's cronies, a man who got his share of the glittering prizes because he was a friend of Charlie Falconer, the Prime Minister's fo...

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