Not quite the truth

It's always fun when someone publicly accuses someone else of lying, especially if that first someone is a minister. The Observer says that health secretary Alan Johnson has accused the British Medical Association of "lying" about the threat to GP surgeries from polyclinics.

The Observer has the comment piece from Johnson that is behind the story. Unfortunately, he doesn't use the word lying. Perhaps there was some deal that that would be how the piece would be spun