From the BBC today 7 May 2007,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6728773.stm :
"Prime Minister Tony Blair declined to comment on the Panorama allegations.
But he said that if the SFO investigation into BAE had not been dropped, it would have led to "the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship and the loss of thousands of British jobs"."
Bliar shoots himself in the foot and shows that his (and Goldsmith's) earlier, well documented, claims that no weight had been given to commercial interests when stopping the SFO investigations have turned out to be the usual bunch of lies! The bloke is a f*****g clown. Does he think we have short term memories? Will somebody shoot the t**t, please?