For this reason, the positive response a whistleblower may initially experience upon reporting a matter may quickly turn ugly as the shadow of blame widens.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said it was "a matter of grave concern".
Shadow leader of the Lords Baroness Royall declined to push the matter to a vote but attacked the government for failures on the economy and on social policy.
The Conservatives' shadow education minister, Angela Burns, said it was a "matter of regret" that the Welsh government had not talked to her party, but agreed that removing the LDPs was "the most sensible way forward".
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary, Vernon Coaker, said the riots had become a matter of "national security" after the police said senior loyalist paramilitaries had been involved in the rioting.
Shadow Lords leader Baroness Royall of Blaisdon called on Lord Strathclyde to make a statement on the matter, and to confirm the government could have waived financial privilege.
In the Commons on 19 March 2012, Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham made the application to Speaker John Bercow for an emergency debate on the matter.
But shadow universities minister Gareth Thomas denounced the White Paper as "a desperate drive to cut fees, no matter what the effect on quality".
"It doesn't matter whether you give people title deeds or secure tenure, " writes proponent Robert Neuwirth in Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters in a New Urban World.
For the Conservatives, shadow foreign secretary William Hague said it was "astonishing" Mr Brown had taken so long to comment on the matter and that the PM was not prepared to address the question of whether Megrahi's release was justified.
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