(358)  FRASER INQUIRY ENDS: THE BLAME GAME BEGINS

The Fraser Inquiry into the Scottish Parliament building project at Holyrood concluded its proceedings after 43 days of evidence with legal submissions on 25 and 26 May 2004.  Everyone blamed everyone else and took no responsibility.  Counsel to the inquiry John Campbell QC took the comprehensive view that everyone involved in the project was to blame for a management failure of gigantic proportions”.  Lord Fraser now retires to his study to consider his verdict