In 1947, the then Labour Chancellor, Hugh Dalton, honourably resigned over a small scale budget leak. Nowadays there seems to be no sense of either propriety or honour with the Chancelloe Alastair Darling pretty much posting the budget to every lobby hack and political correspondent across London.
Today the BBC reports market sensitive information which is bound to impact the share prices of housing companies at the very least but there is no uproar?? In googling for Hugh Dalton's name I also came across this piece by the venerable Iain Dale which echoes (what's the word for the original noise which causes my echo?) my thoughts exactly...
None of this shower are ever likely to resign though so I guess we're just waiting on next May instead!
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