摘 要: | The Guardian makes rather more of the CBE awarded to Enron's Europe chairman, Ralph Hodge, in the 2001 New Year' s honours list. It also questions Downing Street' s insistence that Tony Blair had never met any Enron executives to discuss the restrictions on gas power stations, pointing out that a document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act in 1999 claimed Mr Blair had intervened personally to "water down" the moratorium.The Mail is not going to let the story go without a fight. " The questions Labour must answer, " it splashes, before its reporter does it for them. Labour' s connections with the accountancy firm Arthur Andersen, which audited Enron' s account, are subjected to some scrutiny-as is Geoffrey Robinson, the Labour MP who, the paper says, is "no doubt grateful" to Andersen for
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