http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/66318.html
Alf Young
"John Reid is only in his eleventh week as home secretary. But boy has Tony Blair's renowned enforcer and principal apologist been on the case. In very short order Mr Reid concluded his new department was simply "not fit for purpose". Just as swiftly, this tribune of a party which came to power claiming it would be "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" let it be known - with an acute weather eye on what focus groups and Daily Mail headlines were telling him - that some judges down south were becoming much too lenient in their sentencing."
