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British opposition plays up minister's discomfort over book revelations about colleagues
From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20041215
Author:ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer
ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-15-2004
Dateline: LONDON
A Cabinet minister who gained some sympathy over his ill-fated affair with a married woman appears to be in deeper trouble for his blunt comments about his colleagues in a newly published biography.
Opposition Conservative leader Michael Howard seized on Home Secretary David Blanket biography Wednesday, playing it for laughs at prime minister's questions in the House of Commons.
Howard then tossed the book toward Prime Minister Tony Blair, suggesting that he read it so that he could "give a full explanation of the ...
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