CLG sources this week claimed ministers had ‘nothing to hide', following the department's refusal to reveal whether it had taken legal advice after controversial comments about an outgoing watchdog.
Communities secretary, Eric Pickles, has been urged to ‘come clean' by his Labour Party shadow, Caroline Flint, over accusations that taxpayers' money was used on lawyers' fees, after a source in his department made ‘potentially defamatory' comments about Electoral Commission chair, Jenny Watson.
