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| The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, is only the latest in a long line of government ministers who are no longer able to distinguish between reality and perception (Minister wrong to conceal prince's letters, court told, 9 May). You report "Grieve said there was a risk that the letters would reveal that the heir to the throne had disagreed with government policy and would undermine his political neutrality." Surely, if Charles has been attempting to influence ministers on political issues he has, arguably, abandoned his position of political neutrality. Whether we, the public, get to hear about, is an entirely separate question. | The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, is only the latest in a long line of government ministers who are no longer able to distinguish between reality and perception (Minister wrong to conceal prince's letters, court told, 9 May). You report "Grieve said there was a risk that the letters would reveal that the heir to the throne had disagreed with government policy and would undermine his political neutrality." Surely, if Charles has been attempting to influence ministers on political issues he has, arguably, abandoned his position of political neutrality. Whether we, the public, get to hear about, is an entirely separate question. |
| Of course I don't really believe that Grieve doesn't understand the distinction. He is, regrettably, getting himself into intellectual contortions trying to defend the government's position. Perhaps the time has come for the office of attorney general to be removed from the patronage of the prime minister of the day? Tom Beaton Isleworth, Middlesex | Of course I don't really believe that Grieve doesn't understand the distinction. He is, regrettably, getting himself into intellectual contortions trying to defend the government's position. Perhaps the time has come for the office of attorney general to be removed from the patronage of the prime minister of the day? Tom Beaton Isleworth, Middlesex |
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