Labour's Treasury say they hold sensitive security information on David Cameron

David Cameron worked as a special adviser to Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lamont during the Black Wednesday period.  To have held such a position he would have been subject to a detailed vetting process that could be expected to have covered sexual relationships and drug use, amongst other things.  The Sunday Telegraph has asked to see the file under the Freedom of Information Act but has been told by the Treasury that it could not release the information because of "the effect disclosure would have on the individual".  The letter from the Treasury, declining access, explains that the vetting process aims to identify any individual who "suffers from defects of character which may expose him or her to blackmail. . . or which may otherwise indicate unreliability".

Cameron supporters see this episode as the work of Labour's spin doctors and an attempt to fuel the row about Cameron's alleged past use of Class A drugs.  Gary Streeter MP told The Sunday Telegraph that "this smacks of Labour dirty tricks and desperation because they know that in Cameron the Conservatives are on to a winner."  Tim Yeo MP said: "If they are trying to influence the leadership election they are three weeks too late, they should have done it when the ballot papers went out.  Any kind of veiled reference to this kind of thing, trying to imply there is something there, will not work. We are well beyond that phase now."

Comments

[Gareth]

So the story is, he was subjected to rigorous vetting and, erm, then got the job.

Wow. That's real dynamite if ever I saw it.

[Gareth]

Barbara,

they meant reclassify as in classify to Class B again from Class C. The doctors concluded there was insufficient evidence to suggest that cannabis was linked to mental illness.

[Rick]

So the story is, he was subjected to rigorous vetting and, erm, then got the job.

Wow. That's real dynamite if ever I saw it.

Posted by: Gareth | 21 November 2005 at 07:49

Why ? Dennis Healey became Defence Secretary even though he had been a member of the CPGB in the 1930s which would disaqualify him from working in any defence establishment.

Blackmail is not a problem so long as MI5 can blackmail the politician and not the FSB. Do you really believe that politicians are not squeezed to fall in line ? J. Edgar Hoover built an empire on blackmailing politicians on Capitol Hill; JBJ kept a black book garned as Senate Majority Leader to bring errant Senators to heel.

Do you really think such methods of persuasion as blackmail and straight cash are not used both domestically and internationally to get agreements ? Clearly we have some very unworldly people running around

[Telephone]

The Treasury have declined to release the file, but that doesn't instantly mean for one moment that there's some damning evidence in there that DC is a crackhead. If he had been vetted and very sensitive stuff had come out, he would not have been allowed to work in a government department, pure and simple.

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