Blair aide told to lie in Britain honours probe: BBC

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LONDON (AFP) — The chief fundraiser in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour party asked a top aide to lie in a cash-for-honours probe, the BBC said on Monday.

According to the BBC, Ruth Turner, Blair's 36-year-old director of government relations wrote in a document addressed to the prime minister's Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell that Lord Michael Levy had asked her to lie in relation to the investigation.

The BBC made the claim after a court allowed it to reveal why an injunction had been served on it, preventing it from reporting on the document.

"There is a substantial element of truth in what the intended BBC broadcast was to say," said Justice Sir Alan Wilkie, the judge who originally granted the injunction.

"There is a document addressed...