Article: Falconer, lord of nonsense.(Column)

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Daily Mail (London)
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June 21, 2004
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Byline: PETER MCKAY

COMMON sense suggests it would be unwise for a Prime Minister to select as his Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs a man with whom he once shared a flat, a crony without obvious qualifications for the job.

However, that's what happened when Tony Blair picked his lawyer friend Charlie Falconer.

If Lord Falconer of Thoroton (as he became) possesses other qualities which would commend him as a senior government minister to other premiers, these have not come to light.

Neither has Falconer - a former minister for the Millennium Dome - ever felt it necessary to put himself up for election to see if the electorate ...

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