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Jump to full article: Agence France Presse (AFP) (fr), 2008-10-27
Intro: Former prime minister Tony Blair will not face an investigation into how Formula One racing was exempted from a tobacco advertising ban, the House of Commons Speaker said in a letter released Monday.
Blair had faced a possible probe by Speaker Michael Martin after two lawmakers complained following the release of new papers on the move in 1997 under freedom of information laws. . . .
Now Martin has written to one of the two lawmakers who complained, John Maples of the main opposition Conservatives, to say that while Blair's answers on the issue "could have been clearer", he would not take further action.
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