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Dinsdag, 14 Oktober, 2008

Geheime documenten die onlangs door Britse verslaggevers in het kader van het Akte worden verkregen van de Vrijheid van het Verenigd Koninkrijk van Informatie die het vroegere UK Eerste Minister tonen Tony Blair bevolen tabaks sponsoring vrijgesteld van het nieuwe wet verbieden tabak reclame bij sportieve gebeurtenissen. Actie van Blair kwam onmiddellijk na zijn politieke partij, De Partij van de arbeid, ontving een geheime schenking van één miljoen Britse ponden van Bernie Ecclestone, de voorzitter en CEO van Formule 1 Motorsports. Na het winnen van de algemene verkiezing in 1997, had de Partij van de Arbeid ertoe verbonden om tabak reclame te verbieden, en in Juni 1998, keurde de Europese Unie formeel a goed richtlijn het belemmeren van al tabaks reclame en het sponsoring in de EU. De geheime documenten tonen, niettemin, dat binnen uren die na zijn 16 Oktober, 1997 Ecclestone samenkomen, Blair het UK eiste. het beleid wordt veranderd om tabaksbedrijven toe te staan om de autoraces van Formule 1 te sponsoren, en dat zijn assistenten hem gingen helpen de waarheid achter de verandering verbergen. Philip Morris was grootste tabakssponsor van het rennen van Formule 1.

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De nieuwe documenten openbaren de rol van Nr 10 in het eerste schandaal om Arbeid in bureau in 1997 te raken

Merk uittreksels hier aan de documenten: Pagina 1 / Pagina 2 / Pagina 3

Tony Blair gaf opdracht persoonlijk tot een vrijstelling voor motor rennend van een verbod van het tabakssponsoring nadat de Arbeid een geheime £1m schenking van Bernie Ecclestone, de werkgever van Formule 1 ontving.

De nieuwe documenten die in het kader van het Akte van de Vrijheid worden vrijgegeven van Informatie tonen hij een verandering van beleid binnen uren na een vergadering met Ecclestone op 16 Oktober, 1997 eiste, en zijn assistenten de waarheid gingen vertroebelen.

De zaak was het eerste sleaze schandaal van de nieuwe era van de Arbeid. Bij zijn hoogte, vreesde Blair de episode zijn premiership zou beëindigen en op televisie zijn reputatie ging verdedigen, zeggend was hij een „vrij recht soort kerel“.

De nieuwe documenten stellen de mate bloot waarin hij de stuwende kracht achter plannen was om F1 van het manifestbelofte van de Arbeid vrij te stellen om tabakssponsoring van sport te beëindigen, die een aarzelend Ministerie van Gezondheid duwt in het akkoord gaan. Vóór de schenking van Ecclestone £1m, had de Arbeid een universeel verbod gepland.

Tessa Jowell, a health minister at the time, emerges as having had serious reservations about the move. But a Whitehall memo written on October 31, 1997, states: “The prime minister has made clear his wish to see a permanent exclusion for Formula One from the scope of the tobacco advertising ban.”

The documents show how mandarins warned Blair that he could be misleading MPs over the sequence of events.

At the height of the scandal, the Tory MP John Maples put down a written parliamentary question asking when Blair told Frank Dobson, the health secretary, of his plans to exempt F1.

A briefing note to the Cabinet Office outlining possible responses to the question reveals that the date was October 16. It also reveals Blair ordered Jonathan Powell, his senior aide, to ring Jowell to discuss the issue that evening, shortly after meeting Ecclestone.

However, the note suggests Blair wanted to name October 29 as the date, to be consistent with his previous public claims that the decision was not taken until two to three weeks after the crucial meeting with Ecclestone.

Civil servants warned: “The draft reply is strictly true in terms of the final decision . . . but critics could argue that the answer was disingenuous in that the prime minister’s views had been clearly conveyed by the telephone call on October 16.”

The papers also suggest No 10 set out to mislead the public, via the media, about the prime minister’s role in the affair. A briefing note for Alastair Campbell, then Blair’s press secretary, offers guidance “to dispel the notion that the F1 approach was dictated by the PM alone, after meeting Ecclestone”.

Blair defended the plan for a dispensation on the grounds that the ban could lead to big job losses in Britain’s motor racing industry. However, it has emerged that the then Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) cast doubt on this claim. A memo from the DTI to the health department, sent in November 1997 when the government was still trying to decide how to implement the ban, says: “We believe it is unlikely that if F1 should leave the UK there would be an immediate effect on the industry as a whole.”

The episode took place before political donations had to be publicly declared. For days, Labour refused to reveal whether Ecclestone had given money to the party. As the controversy raged about whether government policy had been influenced by a donation, Gordon Brown, who knew of the gift, found himself denying all knowledge in a radio interview. He was later reported to have returned to the Treasury in anguish, claiming his credibility would be “in shreds” if anyone discovered he had lied.

Tracking the donation

January 1997: Ecclestone donates £1m to Labour

May: ban on sports sponsorship by tobacco companies announced

October: Blair has private meeting with Ecclestone

November 5: government announces proposals to exempt F1 from tobacco sponsorship ban

November 7: government asks advice on donation from standards watchdog

November 11: Labour returns donation

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