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Mark Pack

James Purnell: the hole gets deeper

By Mark Pack | Mon 1st October 2007 - 2:21 pm

Liberal Democrat Voice reported previously on the little local photoshopping trouble Labour minister James Purnell has run into (and which is the cause of this outbreak of photos around the internet).

In brief: he turned up late for a visit with three other MPs to the Tameside General Hospital. However, when the photo of the visit was published, all four MPs were there, standing next to each other.

The MP and the hospital have since given slightly – but perhaps very significantly – different versions of events. As the BBC reported:

A statement from the hospital trust appeared to

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The Voice

What did you do in the 40s, Mr Purnell?

By The Voice | Fri 28th September 2007 - 7:30 pm

The Voice had a good chuckle earlier at this story about an NHS Trust faking a photograph so that Culture Secretary James Purnell could appear with three other MPs after he turned up late for a photo op visit.

Mr Purnell has made it clear it wasn’t his fault:

“I didn’t think a faked photo would be produced and indeed I didn’t see this photo before it went out and if I had done it wouldn’t have agreed to it.”

We believe you, James, so fulsome are you in your denial. But hunting through our image archive, we notice you may …

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Stephen Tall

All change in Cabinet reshuffle

By Stephen Tall | Thu 28th June 2007 - 6:22 pm

The BBC website has a helpful at-a-glance photo-guide to Gordon Brown’s first cabinet here. Only Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, survives in the same post he held under Tony Blair – every other cabinet post has changed hands.

For all that, the reshuffle is perhaps not as extensive as might have been expected, though there are nine ‘new faces’ in the cabinet: Harriet Harman, Geoff Hoon, James Purnell, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls, John Denham, Baroness Ashton, Shaun Woodward and Andy Burnham. However, there were few big surprises, with the possible exception of Jacqui Smith as the first female Home Secretary. …

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