Memorandum by Alan Mattingly (HON 14)
The Independent (22 December) has published
my name as being among those who have declined to accept an honour
in recent years. It is true that, in 1998, I said "thanks,
but no thanks" to an offer of an OBE from 10 Downing Street.
I didn't seek publicity for that decision at
the time, and I don't do so now. However, since the matter has
now reached the public arena, and since you are to chair an investigation
into the system, I am taking the liberty of sending to you, with
this letter, a copy of the letter which I sent to 10 Downing Street
in 1998 explaining my reason for turning down an OBE. I hope that
it might be of some small interest to you.
January 2004
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