The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, has been accused of misleading the public over his role in the procurement scandal that is threatening to engulf his leadership at Scotland Yard. A trail of internal documents uncovered by Met investigators is said to contradict Blair's public statement that he had no influence in the granting of contracts worth £3m to a firm run by Andy Miller, a businessman. Miller is a skiing companion of Blair and has been a friend for 30 years. A note of a 2003 meeting in which the contract for Miller's firm, Impact...
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