And that as much as anything betrays the fact that a lot more lies behind the current furore over the appointment of Margaret Hodge as minister for children and young people than the concern of a few newspapers for the welfare of children. The Evening Standard, which is leading the campaign against Hodge, has dusted off its investigation into the abuses suffered by children who were in the care of Islington Council in the 1980s when Hodge was its leader. The newspaper has never forgiven her, not for the abuses that happened on her patch but because however much she has said sorry for the mistakes she made, she has never apologised for brushing off the Standard's award-winning investigation as "gutter journalism".
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