UK NEWS: PM told to improve sleaze inquiries

Tony Blair's failure to improve the procedures for investigating claims of ministerial misconduct is undermining his own government, the sleaze watchdog has warned.

Following the scandal surrounding culture secretary Tessa Jowell and the investigation into her conduct by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, the committee on standards in public life has called for a tightening up of the current system.

Committee chairman Sir Alistair Graham said that over the last year a key consideration for the watchdog had been the the lack of public trust in office holders.

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