Why Britain's Defense Secretary Had To Resign

Photo: Resigned: Dr Fox, pictured yesterday, has stood down as Defence Secretary after a week of allegations about his relationship with Adam Werritty

Secret Cash Trail That Meant Fox HAD To Go: Defence Secretary Resigns After Claim He 'Personally Asked Tory Donor To Fund His Best Man' -- Daily Mail

* Transport Secretary Philip Hammond is named as his replacement at the MoD with Justine Greening taking his job
* Dr Fox admits he 'mistakenly allowed the distinction between my personal interest and my Government activities to become blurred'
* 'The consequences of this have become clearer in recent days,' he said as he quit
* David Cameron says he is very sorry but 'understands reasons'
* Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy says 'this was unavoidable and inevitable'

Liam Fox resigned last night amid allegations that he asked a wealthy Tory donor to fund his best man and former flatmate Adam Werritty.

Dr Fox quit when he learnt he was to face a torrent of new claims about damaging conflicts of interest between Mr Werritty’s backers and his role as Defence Secretary.

He fell on his sword after the millionaire money men turned on him and deliberately leaked details of how £157,000 was paid to Mr Werritty to let him fly around the world with Dr Fox.

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My Comment: Scandals like this one usually occurs after a government has been in power for a few years. But .... sighhhhh .... the Tory-Liberal coalition is only a year old. With massive budget cuts impacting scores of families under his watch, soldiers dying in Afghanistan, and a complete gutting of what was once a world class military institution .... it is now clear to me that Liam Fox was more preoccupied in helping his best friend than those helping who honorably serve in the armed forces. What this former Defense Secretary did is borderline criminal, and definitely unethical .... and I for one would not be surprised if this ends up in some court.

As for British Prime Minister Cameron who has spent the past few weeks defending his Defense Secretary .... I have one question .... what were you thinking?