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WHAT HAPPENED ON 28th January 2001?
27th January 2001
MINI-RESHUFFLE AFTER MANDELSON RESIGNS
Energy minister Helen Liddell is taking up her new duties as Scottish Secretary after her predecessor John Reid was appointed to the N Ireland office. Foreign Office minister Peter Hain is to replace Ms Liddell at the Department of Trade & Industry. Mr Hain will be replaced by Scottish Office minister Brian Wilson. A replacement for Mr Wilson will be announced later today Downing Street has said.
28th January 2001
I WAS RUSHED INTO QUITTING ` MANDELSON
Peter Mandelson has said he was rushed into resigning as Northern Ireland Secretary in a moment of weakness & on the basis of incomplete evidence. Writing in The Sunday Times he claims he was left "isolated" & unable to defend himself at Downing Street. Mr Mandelson insists he did not lie about his involvement in the Hinduja brothers' passport application. He adds that he is determined to clear his name in the probe into the affair.
28th January 2001
AHERN TO ATTEND DOWNING STREET SUMMIT
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has announced he will attend a Downing Street summit on the Northern Ireland peace process on Wednesday. He has said there is no possibility of a deal on outstanding issues such as IRA decommissioning at the meeting. But he added that he is "determined... if not optimistic" that a resolution can eventually be achieved. A breakthrough is unlikely without progress "across all fronts" he added.
27th January 2001
REID HAS TALKS WITH N IRELAND MINISTERS
New Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid has had his first formal meeting with First Minister David Trimble & Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon. After the hour-long talks at Stormont Mr Trimble said there was "a window of opportunity" to resolve decommissioning and policing issues before an election. It would not take "much more progress" to "bed down" the peace deal he added. But Mr Mallon was less upbeat saying that "very substantial" work was needed
28th January 2001
I WAS RUSHED INTO QUITTING ` MANDELSON
Peter Mandelson has said he was rushed into resigning as Northern Ireland Secretary in a moment of weakness & on the basis of incomplete evidence. Writing in The Sunday Times he claims he was left "isolated" & unable to defend himself at Downing Street. Mr Mandelson insists he did not lie about his involvement in the Hinduja brothers' passport application. He adds that he is determined to clear his name in the probe into the affair.
28th January 2001
CAMPBELL DENIES QUERYING MANDELSON MIND
Tony Blair's spokesman has denied he questioned Peter Mandelson's state of mind following the Hinduja passport row Alastair Campbell said he called Mr Mandelson "curiously detached" over a phone call the ex-Northern Ireland Secretary made to him a week ago. Mr Campbell said he only meant Mr Mandelson did not see press coverage of the Hinduja row as "a great problem". Mr Mandelson "was is & will continue to be a friend of mine " he added.
