Tuesday, February 08, 2005

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la politique

I've said on many occasions that the most impressive thing about Michael Howard's short leadership of the Conservative Party has been his willingness to take on powerful enemies even at considerable cost to his and his party's chance of winning the next election.

Last year his forensic skewering of the government's policy in Iraq got him banned from the White House. Now he's taken on Rupert Murdoch and the Murdoch Press, by issuing a libel suit against Murdoch's The Times over allegations that the Tories' election guru said they couldn't win the next election.

I have nothing but praise for this action. Let's hope his next target is the Sun.

posted by Matthew @ 2/08/2005 10:55:00 AM Comments: 0