Former PM Gordon Brown, the second commissioner replied, had "without any proper consultation renounced the ability of Downing Street to have any influence" over appointments.
In previous communications we kindly asked for a solution to this situation and we stressed unequivocally that such matters must be resolved withoutany further delay and preferably after consultation with the interested parties.
All of the new technologies that Mr Blair promotes are entirely controlled by private enterprise and released into the world withoutany form of democratic mandate or public consultation.