How about Rifkind to replace Fox?
runners and riders now Liam Fox forced to resign as Defence Secretary.
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In the wake of Dr Fox’s resignation, foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller reveals the links with private interests that allowed Dr Fox to run what some called ‘a shadow foreign policy’.
runners and riders now Liam Fox forced to resign as Defence Secretary.
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on whether today’s newspaper reports have shored up Dr Fox’s position.
The defence secretary denies allegations that he lied about having a male house guest during a burglary, as the prime minister once more gives him his support.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox is to face questions from MPs over his relationship with Adam Werritty, as a report into his conduct is handed to the prime minister.
As an interim report blasts the blurring of the line between ministers’ public and personal interests, campaigners tell Channel 4 News the government must deliver on promises to regulate lobbying.
The fact David Cameron may not be Liam Fox’s biggest fan is probably the least relevant fact in this story. The Prime Minister will not want to lose a scalp, and will not want to lose somebody popular with vast numbers of party members and especially those MPs on the right of the party. Downing Street must be hoping tomorrow’s draft report has no other nasty surprises in it. But I rather suspect Liam Fox won’t be doing television interviews over the next few hours. He is facing the House of Commons, and no doubt discussing the situation with the Cabinet Secretary and the Prime Minister. Here are some of the questions the public might like the answers to.
Ahead of the report to David Cameron on Liam Fox’s dealings with adviser Adam Werritty, the defence secretary admits his contact with his friend may have given an impression of wrongdoing.
Prime Minister David Cameron has asked for an initial report on the investigation into Defence Secretary Liam Fox’s dealings with self-styled adviser Adam Werritty, to be delivered to him by Monday.
As Defence Secretary Liam Fox orders an internal investigation over his relationship with self-styled adviser Adam Werritty, Channel 4 News looks at the questions surrounding the 14-year friendship.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox has ordered an investigation into whether his relationship with a close friend put national security at risk.
Labour MPs quiz Defence Secretary Liam Fox about his friendship with a man who allegedly claims to be one of his advisers and has visited him at the Ministry of Defence on many occasions.
As more than 1,000 Navy personnel are told they are to be made redundant, Defence Secretary Liam Fox is criticised for suggesting that defence chiefs are partly to blame for the cutbacks.
MPs warn that cuts to Britain’s stretched Armed Forces may leave them unable to deal with the unexpected, reducing the Government’s future defence strategy to little more than a “wish list”.
The claim Will the Secretary of State confirm whether he has any plans to reduce the size of the Army post-2015?