July 4, 2007 (LPAC)--New U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown rejects call to reopen the Serious Fraud Office investigation of BAE-Saudi arms deal, insisting the decision to prosecute were "not a matter for the prime minister or for the government." This was in response to a request by Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, "Will he order the reopening of the investigation into allegations of corruption into arms sale?"

On June 28, Lyndon LaRouche warned that how the new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handles the BAE scandal could determine whether he stays in power, or whether he will fall.

The London Financial Times warned in that day's editorial that Tony Blair's quashing of the SFO investigation into Al Yamamah had just blown up the matter into a transatlantic scandal that could threaten the "special relationship." Now Brown is following in those footsteps.