Safe hands? About as safe as KC in the outfield. It’s sad how Tony Blair, who promised so much, should have failed so dismally to deliver anything of substance. His only half decent minister, Frank Field, was sacked for telling the truth. As for Gordon Brown, his Inland Revenue property fiasco (selling their vast freeholds to a company resident in the Bahamas for tax avoidance purposes and leasing them back for peanuts, thereby compounding a prodigious net loss several years hence), speaks volumes about his principles. Not that the Tories would be any better. A plague on both their houses, I say.