Blacklock's Reporter

The Commons by a 164 to 153 vote yesterday confirmed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s nominee as Budget Officer. Annette Ryan, 55, a former assistant associate deputy finance minister, acknowledged she knew Carney when both studied at Oxford in the 1990s but denied any partisan leanings: “Will you commit to never censoring or watering down a report at the request of the government, bureaucracy or Prime Minister’s Office?”