| Moore and Sixsmith step down |
February 18: Downing Street moved yesterday to mend fences with the civil service after reports that government sources believed the Jo Moore row had highlighted grave deficiencies in Whitehall.
February 17: The battle over who runs politics in Britain took a dramatic twist yesterday when the Government launched an all-out war against 'insidious influences' within the civil service.
The war of Whitehall
Disarray in the heart of Whitehall
February 16: Blair's demand for an end to infighting at the transport department forces Jo Moore and Martin Sixsmith to resign.
More transport fatalities
Comment: nowhere else to spin
Profile of Jo Moore
Profile of Martin Sixsmith
February 15: A chief civil servant today intervened in the internal row with the Department of Transport, warning officials they should resign or face the sack if found guilty of leaking.
Full text of letter to Byers' press chief
Analysis: heads will roll
February 15: Downing Street is struggling to contain a Whitehall war after Tony Blair's spokesman rebuked a senior civil servant caught up in the latest Jo Moore row.
Sixsmith dismisses Moore row as 'nonsense'
New Jo Moore farce enrages Downing Street
Explained: the Jo Moore spin email row
Transport department denies new bid to bury bad news
Talk: should Jo Moore be sacked?
| Jo Moore and September 11 |
November 30: Stephen Byers has offered to take the rap for a mishandled Railtrack briefing, as pressure for the resignation of spin doctor Jo Moore intensified.
October 23: The under-fire transport secretary, Stephen Byers, has received a 45-minute grilling in the Commons over his controversial press secretary Jo Moore.
October 16: Jo Moore, the special adviser who sent an email on September 11 suggesting it was a 'good day to bury bad news' has apologised.
Byers - Moore made an 'isolated mistake'
Pressure grows on Byers adviser to quit
Top spin doctor apologises over war memo
Bury bad news in crisis, memo urged
October 10: Jo Moore is a product of the Peter Mandelson school of spin doctors.
Leader: New Labour spins to new low
What was Byers' spin doctor trying to conceal?
Timing is everything in managing the news
October 9, comment: Most spin doctors have released bad news when media attention is focused elsewhere - but Jo Moore's memo was an astonishing blunder, writes Benjamin Wegg-Prosser.
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