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Opposition accuses PM over war
The Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition, Boris Johnson, exchanged heated exchanges today as Mr Johnson accused the Government of failing to tell the whole truth about the reasons behind the timing of the revelation of the revision of the dossier about the testimony of the intelligence services' sources in a previous phase of the war on terror.
"Nobody agrees more than I do that the war on terror should be won and must be won," said Mr Johnson at a NuConLib meeting in the Northamptonshire town of Frognal Bunting; "but that is no excuse for the Prime Minister's questionable veracity in promulgating it to the country."
The Prime Minister responded with claims that the opposition is trying to exploit the bravery of British troops in the interests of scoring "cheap political points".
"What matters is that the war on terror should be won and is being won, and that it should be won and is being won by, with, through and because of this Government and this Government's determination that our brave boys should, can, will and may not be let down by the cheap electioneering of an opposition which lacks the maturity to draw a line under something under which a line can, must and should be drawn if the country is to proceed forward rather than backward into the new decade," the Prime Minister told journalists.
On the alleged discrepancies in the Government's account of the sequence of events leading to the intelligence services' claims, the Prime Minister said that the question would be decided "by the electorate, not the media".
"A prime minister is above all else a shepherd of his country," the Prime Minister concluded. "A good prime minister is a good shepherd, as was my illustrious predecessor, Lord Blair of Belmarsh. But even the best of shepherds cannot always afford to sit down with his sheep and draw them an Ordnance Survey map of the location of the pen. Sometimes, when the wolf is at the door, it is necessary to risk crucifixion and allow the dogs of war to guide the sheep into port."
The Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition, Boris Johnson, exchanged heated exchanges today as Mr Johnson accused the Government of failing to tell the whole truth about the reasons behind the timing of the revelation of the revision of the dossier about the testimony of the intelligence services' sources in a previous phase of the war on terror.
"Nobody agrees more than I do that the war on terror should be won and must be won," said Mr Johnson at a NuConLib meeting in the Northamptonshire town of Frognal Bunting; "but that is no excuse for the Prime Minister's questionable veracity in promulgating it to the country."
The Prime Minister responded with claims that the opposition is trying to exploit the bravery of British troops in the interests of scoring "cheap political points".
"What matters is that the war on terror should be won and is being won, and that it should be won and is being won by, with, through and because of this Government and this Government's determination that our brave boys should, can, will and may not be let down by the cheap electioneering of an opposition which lacks the maturity to draw a line under something under which a line can, must and should be drawn if the country is to proceed forward rather than backward into the new decade," the Prime Minister told journalists.
On the alleged discrepancies in the Government's account of the sequence of events leading to the intelligence services' claims, the Prime Minister said that the question would be decided "by the electorate, not the media".
"A prime minister is above all else a shepherd of his country," the Prime Minister concluded. "A good prime minister is a good shepherd, as was my illustrious predecessor, Lord Blair of Belmarsh. But even the best of shepherds cannot always afford to sit down with his sheep and draw them an Ordnance Survey map of the location of the pen. Sometimes, when the wolf is at the door, it is necessary to risk crucifixion and allow the dogs of war to guide the sheep into port."
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