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Titolo: Italgate a Londra- The real reason Jowell split from Mills (The Independent)

 Dopo la Libia, la maledizione del Berlusca colpisce ancora. Titoli 
cubitali a Londra...
Am.
The real reason Jowell split from Mills
 Letter involving Blair in Italian bribes inquiry was the 'final straw' 
for Culture Secretary. David Mills admits wife's fury over 
embarrassment his dealings have caused, and says he's 'mortified'
 By Marie Woolf and Francis Elliott
 Published: 05 March 2006
 A furious Tessa Jowell decided to separate from her husband David 
Mills after it emerged that the businessman had attempted to trade on 
his relationship with Tony Blair, The Independent on Sunday can today 
reveal.
 However, the couple's announcement yesterday that they were to live 
apart failed to win the Culture Secretary even a temporary reprieve 
from the intense pressure created by her husband's business dealings.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article349336.ece

cubitali a Londra...
*ROTFL*
Purtroppo per te "The Independent" e' un giornale che copre ben poco di
Londra :)
Oltretutto non nomina nemmeno il Berlusca il tuo articolo :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Sei patetico...
Am.

Stefano De Cesari ha scritto:
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Del Times che ne dici ?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2070290_1,00.html
vien fuori pure il nome di berlusconi <g>
Furious Jowell: my husband betrayed me
Jonathan Calvert, Gareth Walsh and John Follain
TESSA JOWELL, the culture secretary, and her husband David Mills
announced their separation yesterday as friends revealed she felt
betrayed.
They disclosed that she was furious at having been kept in the dark as
her husband fought a bribery investigation by Italian prosecutors.
As Jowell became embroiled in the scandal, friends said she had been
particularly upset by the disclosure that her lawyer husband had not
only traded on her status but also boasted of his connections with Tony
Blair when seeking a licence to practise in Dubai.
"Tessa has been very angry, hurt and upset," said a close friend of
the family yesterday. "She doesn't know what's coming next and
there is a deep sense of betrayal. It had gone beyond rows, beyond
shouting. Just a sense of betrayal."
The friend added: "She has been in the dark about this. The whole
family is shocked, especially as she loves him so much. She has done
everything to keep her nose clean and now she feels betrayed."
The couple have two children together and he has three children from
his previous marriage.
A close colleague of Jowell's added: "There's been a breakdown of
trust, having learnt about things he has done which she didn't know
about. It is not a synthetic stunt."
Another colleague said: " If the allegations against Mills are
proven, then she will have been misled by her husband. I have worked
closely with her for years and know her as a woman of integrity."
News that the couple have split came in a statement yesterday from
Mills's solicitor, who said that the controversy had imposed a
"dreadful strain" on the marriage. It said Jowell had been
"angered by the embarrassment" her husband had caused her. It is
understood that she will live in their London home, while he will move
to their country house at Shipston on Stour, south Warwickshire.
The announcement failed to relieve the pressure for Jowell to explain
exactly what she knew of her husband's business dealings as fresh
questions emerged over his tax affairs and mortgage deals.
Bob Marshall-Andrews, a Labour MP, dismissed suggestions the split
would help save her career. "I don't think it will make any
difference," he said.
Some MPs suggested that the separation was calculated to save
Jowell's career by distancing her from her husband's problems. They
detect the hand of Alastair Campbell, the former Downing Street
director of communications, and his girlfriend Fiona Millar, who are
close friends of Jowell.
Campbell, who is alleged to have forced Robin Cook, then foreign
secretary, to choose between his wife and mistress as he was about to
board a plane in 1997, and Millar have been advising Jowell in the past
few days.
Campbell is said to have told her to "keep her head down" and not
talk about the allegations against her husband.
One Labour MP said: "It is clearly a sham. Campbell has obviously
been pulling strings. This is worse than telling Robin Cook to leave
his wife at the airport.
"The idea she has left David Mills out of embarrassment and anger is
a joke. We all think it is a charade and they will be back together
again as soon as it calms down."
Other MPs suggested that even if the split was genuine, it could make
Jowell look as if she had ruthlessly ditched her husband of 27 years
simply to save her political career.
However, a close friend said: "This is absolutely not a gimmick. They
have both been in a terrible state, hardly sleeping for the last week.
He has been utterly distraught. The bottom has fallen out of his world.
It's been a witch-hunt. Now it has destroyed their marriage."
The disclosure that Mills had claimed he had the "support and
sympathy" of Blair while seeking to impress the Dubai authorities -
the first time that the prime minister had been drawn into the scandal
- made the fiercely loyal Blairite minister "very angry".
She once said she would throw herself under a bus for the prime
minister.
His boasts were aired on Thursday morning, the same day that Jowell was
officially cleared of wrongdoing by the cabinet secretary.
Mills left the couple's north London home looking flustered and was
involved in a fracas with reporters.
"She was very angry over the Dubai letter and bringing in Blair's
name," said a friend.
In his statement yesterday, Mills accepted responsibility for causing
embarrassment to his wife. "This whole business has imposed a
dreadful strain on my client and his marriage," said David Kirk, his
solicitor.
"He fully accepts responsibility for these pressures and for the
situation into which he put his wife, whom he knows is entirely
blameless in all of this. He is as mortified as she has been angered by
the embarrassment he has caused her.
"They hope that over time their relationship can be restored, but,
given the current circumstances they have agreed to a period of
separation."
Mills, who left the country this weekend, could be charged this week by
Italian prosecutors over claims he took a £350,000 bribe from Silvio
Berlusconi for giving favourable evidence in a court case against the
Italian prime minister. Mills yesterday insisted he was innocent.
Meanwhile Jowell, who was spending the weekend at the country cottage
in Nottinghamshire of Lord Falconer, the lord chancellor, will seek to
relaunch her political career, both as minister and as leader of
Labour's local election campaign. The culture secretary is due to
answer departmental questions in the Commons tomorrow.
The marital split has done little to relieve the pressure on the
couple. The Observer newspaper claimed last night that it had obtained
documentation which revealed Mills made a £67,000 profit from buying
shares in a pub chain at a time his wife was involved in the
government's review of licensing laws. The documents suggested Mills
used a corporation based in the British Virgin Islands to purchase
91,000 shares in the Old Monk Company for £80,000 in 1998. He sold
them for £147,000 18 months later, the paper claimed.
Kate Hoey, Labour MP for Vauxhall, called on Jowell to quit as head of
Labour's London election campaign, saying: "I think it might be in
the best interests of the London election campaign for Tessa, who is
under such strain at the moment, not to take charge."
London MPs are concerned about a backlash from voters who may be
alienated by a Labour politician with so many properties and mortgages.

 Sei patetico...
...disse il bue all'asino... :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 vien fuori pure il nome di berlusconi <g>
Si. Appare una volta sola ... in un lungo articolo che non lo riguarda
ne direttamente ne minimamente :)
Non riuscivi a trovare niente di meglio caro Massimino? :)
-Stefano

 
disse il bue all asino

disse il bue all asino
C.V.D. :)
Alla prossima caro Massimino!
-Stefano

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