ST JAMES’S PALACE yesterday threw down the gauntlet to the Government to set up its own independent inquiry into the collapse of the Paul Burrell trial.
Senior officials from Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace have held talks “through the usual channels” about legal authorities setting up their own hearing. But Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, QC, the AttorneyGeneral, have ruled out such a move.
In an interview with The Times Sir Michael Peat, who will head the internal palace inquiry on behalf of the Prince of Wales, expressed his frustration at the relentless criticism of the palace’s decision not to stage an independent inquiry headed by an outsider.
Sir Michael, one of the Queen’s most senior advisers for nine years until he became Private