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SW: add Most Slippery Politician study
:"Shortly after Filkin started her investigation, John Reid had contacted Rowley and 'made threats of a particularly disturbing kind', Filkin wrote in her report to the committee. Reid had told Rowley that if he continued to give evidence that suggested wrong-doing he could 'face criminal prosecution and risk not being adopted by the party as a parliamentary candidate'. Rowley was so worried about what Reid was saying, he taped their next conversation. It was a tense chat. During it, Reid said to Rowley: 'You don't have to tell any lies. Do you know what I mean?', later adding: 'They cannot prove anything, Alex.'"{{ref|ahmed24Dec2000}}
=="Most slippery" politician==
A study in early 2007 found that Reid is an evasive interviewee:
:"Mr Reid failed to answer 44 per cent of questions put to him, compared to 42 per cent for Mr Blair... A team led by Prof Geoff Beattie, the resident psychologist on Channel 4's Big Brother, reviewed every political television interview by Britain's 10 highest-profile MPs over three weeks and analysed responses."
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