Mr Blair's problem is that he came to office having contrasted Labour integrity with Tory sleaze.
According to the Blairites, this is quite, quite different from the sleaze that engulfed the Tories.
Without the rigid discipline of profit and loss, crony capitalist sleaze like Solyndra becomes certain.
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Conservative Party vice-chairman Tim Collins said the different stories undermined Labour's claims to be free of sleaze.
The reason this time is not the sleaze and cronyism of the 1990s, but Slovakia's prickly principles.
In Tirana, where denouncers of sleaze are a rareish breed, he has been hailed as a hero.
Investigators say that while Inserra was claiming disability, he continued to perform with his Brooklyn-based band, Cousin Sleaze.
But one plausible argument for now taking that risk is that the Tory party is mired in sleaze.
Not just obscure backbenchers, but senior ministers such as Geoffrey Robinson and Peter Mandelson, have been accused of sleaze.
Federal authorities described Cousin Sleaze as a punk band, though its website suggests its style is more hardcore metal.
Unless he deals with sleaze, Mr Erdogan may lose the trust of his own citizens and his European partners.
Mr Barak and his political allies boasted of their uncompromising hostility to sleaze.
Sleaze dogged the Tories during the 1990s, but now politicians of all stripes struggle to command the trust of voters.
That seems to have been the lesson that Tony Blair drew from the incessant culling in John Major's sleaze-prone government.
The charge of "Conservative sleaze" came to symbolise the national mood that something was rotten at the heart of government.
But with financial sleaze, Labour is in danger of falling into a similar trap to the one that caught the Tories.
The problem for Mr Bush is that Ms Miers's withdrawal and the fuss about Plamegate compound a picture of incompetence and sleaze.
The press makes hay over what it portrays as sleaze and trickery.
Other southerners, notably Spaniards and Portuguese, have both improved, though sleaze and corruption, especially at regional and city levels, is still common.
Britain lacks the pocket-lining sleaze that enlivens the politics of other countries.
Many people were nevertheless quick to express outrage at this first apparent instance of sleaze in the new government of President Jacob Zuma.
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So far, Mr D'Amato's foes have focused more on his opinions than on sleaze, the subject that has tended to dominate other D'Amato campaigns.
He says that Labour made a deliberate decision in opposition to use accusations of sleaze as a tool with which to dislodge the Conservatives.
Most of the measures, such as a ban on gifts from lobbyists to state employees, aim to rid Albany, the state capital, of sleaze.
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At one point British officials had to give quarterly reports to their fellow OECD members to explain their country's lack of adequate legislation on sleaze.
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Oliver Heald - the MP on the committee - asked if characterisations of party funding as being a "sleaze pit" or that it "stinks" were fair.
He was worried that three of his ministers were being mired in Westminster-style sleaze allegations, which the new Scottish Parliament was supposed to be free from.
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