Afterhisinitialconfession, hesaid, the interrogatorswent over thecrimewithhimin detail — askinghowhe did it, butcorrecting him whenhe got the factswrong.
Worse still, when John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, who is in charge of getting the agencies up and running, went around Whitehall asking his colleagues to hand over parts of their departments to the new regional bodies, he was met with barricades.