Fox says sorry for ‘mistake’

DEFENCE Secretary Liam Fox apologised last night for making a mistake in allowing “distinctions to be blurred” in his working relationship with former flatmate Adam Werritty.

In a statement released on his return to London, Dr Fox conceded that his “frequent contacts with him may have given an impression of wrongdoing”.

The beleaguered Tory also accepted that their close ties may have given outsiders the “misleading impression that Mr Werritty was an official adviser rather than simply a friend”.

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