http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2099641,00.html'Tony Blair has been forced to issue an unprecedented apology to David Cameron after a Tory anti-terrorism initiative was unveiled by Gordon Brown weeks after the Conservative leader passed on the idea in private to the Prime Minister.
Blair apology over Cameron terror plan
Tory leader's anger as phone tap initiative he outlined in private is adopted by Brown
Nicholas Watt, political editor
Sunday June 10, 2007
The Observer
Tony Blair has been forced to issue an unprecedented apology to David Cameron after a Tory anti-terrorism initiative was unveiled by Gordon Brown weeks after the Conservative leader passed on the idea in private to the Prime Minister.
An embarrassed Downing Street gave the Prime Minister's apologies to Cameron's office last week after the Tory leader expressed his anger when he found his idea trailed by Brown as a new tool for tackling terrorism.
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The extraordinary gesture from the Prime Minister to the leader of the Opposition was made after Brown called last weekend for a privy council review into whether telephone tap evidence should be admitted as evidence in court. A series of Sunday newspapers, including The Observer, carried Brown's comments as a sign of how he will adopt a tough approach to tackling terrorism.
A furious Cameron instructed his office to contact Downing Street last Monday to find out what had happened, because he had suggested the idea to Blair in a private meeting in No 10 two weeks earlier. Cameron was particularly upset because the meeting with Blair was meant to establish a cross-party consensus on dealing with the terrorist threat.'
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And you wonder why we keep schtum over our policy ideas...
