THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The Blair government tried to secure a place at Oxford University for Saif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi.
A senior Foreign Office official contacted the university in 2002 as part of efforts to establish better relations with the Libyan regime, according to a report.
“It was made clear that the FCO would appreciate help in this case since Libya was opened up to the West again,” Professor Valpy FitzGerald said in the report. The request came two years before Mr Blair’s deal in the desert, which formally reopened diplomatic links.
The approach was disclosed by an inquiry, carried out by Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice, into the “disastrous” relationship that subsequently developed between Gaddafi’s Libya and the London School of Economics. Continue reading and comment » | Graeme Paton, Education Editor | Wednesday, November 30. 2011
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