In a surprise move, a prominent Jewish member of the British government resigned.
Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith was widely expected to be dismissed after Gordon Brown’s takeover as prime minister on Wednesday, and the resignation is being seen as a pre-emptive move.
Brown was expected to remove Goldsmith as part of the restructuring of the Crown Prosecution Service so that no ministerial members would be part of the investigation of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labor cohorts in a scandal involving the bestowing of peerages, or lordships, to significant donors.
The anticipated house-cleaning moves comprise Brown s attempt to distance his new government from the Blair administration and the “cash for honors” scandal.
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