It will be interesting to see how tis story develops as the day moves on.
This morning's Sunday Telegraph has looked back at events of 10 years ago as the first sleeze scandal hit New Labour.
Using Freedom of Information legislation to look at the Ecclestone affiar the paper reveals that
Tony Blair personally intervened to secure Formula One's exemption from the tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting Bernie Ecclestone, the motorsport's billionaire boss
The revelation says the paper
casts doubt on the version of events given by officials both to Parliament and to lobby journalists when the sleaze scandal first broke in 1997. The documents also show that civil servants believed draft statements on the affair, which were about to be made public, were "disingenuous
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