Freedom of Information?

Not if it might embarrass our political masters there isn't. The BBC reports that:

"Justice Secretary Jack Straw has vetoed the publication of minutes of key Cabinet meetings held in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003.

He said he would use a clause in the Freedom of Information Act to block the release of details of meetings in which the war's legality was discussed.

Releasing the papers would do "serious damage" to Cabinet government, he said, and outweighed public interest needs.

The Information Tribunal ruled last month that they should be published."

Isn't this Labour government wonderful, all bright eyed and full of good intentions in 1997 and now as shady a bunch as you could wish(?) to meet. In fact some of us realised that they were shady shysters in 1997 but who wanted to listen then?