LONDON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Britain's Labor chairman Ian McCartney told BBC Scotland Saturday that a fellow party member will not be expelled over her United Nations bugging claims.
Clare Short has said Britain spied on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anna, which drew an angry response from Prime Minister Tony Blair who called the claim "deeply irresponsible."
"I'm not going to make her a martyr," McCartney told the BBC. But he did describe Short's behavior in accusing the government of spying on the U.N. prior to the Iraq war as "outrageous and unforgivable."
He accused Short of having made "a terrible error of judgement," and said she is "someone who has been totally, grossly irresponsible in what she has done."
Short, a former Cabinet minister, continued to make her claims in a full front-page article written for Saturday's edition of The Independent.
She said Tony Blair's accusation that her action had jeopardized national security was "laughable."
