Clock ticking for Fox

One doubts whether Liam Fox's phone has stopped ringing since yesterday morning with Tory Party grandees trying to get to the root of his relationship with Adam Werritty

The Sunday's give little comfort to the defence secretary even after David Cameron's ordering of the initial findings of an MoD inquiry into Werritty's role as a self-styled adviser to Fox to be presented to him on Monday.

The Observer has footage of Fox's former flatmate meeting the president of Sri Lanka with Fox for a meeting in a London hotel last year, despite having no role in government and emails that suggest that far from being the chance meeting in Dubai that Fox had claimed,Fox's friend had been trying to fix up such a meeting since April.

You're a liar says the Mail on Sunday claiming that Labour's shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy

says Dr Fox gave him a personal assurance that the Dubai meeting, where the Defence Secretary discussed a potential arms deal, was all above board and that a Ministry of Defence mandarin had been present

Fox meanwhile told the Sunday Telegraph that

"I have absolutely no fear of complete transparency in these matters. I think there are underlying issues behind these claims and the motivation is deeply suspect."

The pressure though mounts as Ursula Brennan, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence, has been given 48 hours to produce an interim report on Werritty’s activities that will be handed to O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, tomorrow and then based to the Prime Minister.

So just how safe is he? Despite No 10 having given him his full backing,these revelations of untruths and misrepresentations may leave David Cameron with no choice but to move him aside

A Fox,A Werrity and the Atlantic

Relegated to the inside pages has been the sniff of scandal overshadowing defence Secretary Liam Fox.

The Guardian picked up yesterday that Atlantic Bridge, a pro-Atlanticist propaganda organisation set up by Fox with Lady Thatcher as its patron, was dissolved as a charity at the end of last month in the light of a critical report from the Charities Commission.

Not only that but George Osborne, William Hague and Michael Gove were amongst its advisory board members.

It had already been suspended for promoting Conservative party policies in defiance of regulations prior to the charity commission move.

On top of all that controversy,Mr Fox is facing further criticism that he had put national security at risk by allowing a close friend to present himself as an official adviser.

The close friend is 33 year old Adam Werritty a defence consultant and former health company director who was its sole employee and questions are beng asked about just how close his relationship was with both Mr Fox and the government's defence policy.

Certainly this story could run and run especially now that Labour's Jim Murphy, the shadow defence secretary, John Mann and Kevan Jones are vigourosly following up the story