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Lord Howell apologises, says he meant 'north west', not 'north east', is desolate [View all]
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Fracking uproar peer causes further derision with geography revision
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph published on Wednesday, Howell, who lives in southern England, again apologised for his "stupid error" but then risked compounding it. "What was in my mind was much more the drilling going on off the Lancashire coast," he said. "But it came out of my mouth as the north-east, which you can blame me for rightly. And that has created a great furore. The north-east wasn't in my mind at all."
The peer said he was very "pro the area", adding: "The irony is that I go to the north-east a lot."
On Twitter, the former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott wrote: "When in a Hole, stop fracking." Tony Blair's former spokesman Alastair Campbell joked: "Looking forward to Lord Howell's nationwide tour."
The shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, tweeted: "He actually means somewhere a long way from Surrey."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/01/fracking-peer-howell-north-west-east
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph published on Wednesday, Howell, who lives in southern England, again apologised for his "stupid error" but then risked compounding it. "What was in my mind was much more the drilling going on off the Lancashire coast," he said. "But it came out of my mouth as the north-east, which you can blame me for rightly. And that has created a great furore. The north-east wasn't in my mind at all."
The peer said he was very "pro the area", adding: "The irony is that I go to the north-east a lot."
On Twitter, the former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott wrote: "When in a Hole, stop fracking." Tony Blair's former spokesman Alastair Campbell joked: "Looking forward to Lord Howell's nationwide tour."
The shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, tweeted: "He actually means somewhere a long way from Surrey."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/01/fracking-peer-howell-north-west-east
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