The aftershocks of the government's decision to drop the probe into Saudi arms deal continue to reverberate.
While the OECD is meeting in Paris to discuss whether the UK is in breach of its commitments to its anti-corruption convention by dropping the Serious Fraud Office inquiry, at home Tony Blair is under pressure to publish the government's defence of its decision.
At PMQs today, the Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, demanded Mr Blair publish the government's evidence to the OECD - which may or may not reveal whether MI6 was wholeheartedly convinced the Saudis were threatening to drop intelligence co-operation, as the Guardian reported on Tuesday.
Sir Menzies branded the collapse of the investigation a "squalid affair".
Meanwhile, the MP who heads the Commons arms export watchdog today said scrapping the inquiry had done "irreparable damage" to the UK's reputation abroad - and must be reversed.
Roger Berry, the Labour chairman of the Commons quadripartite committee (which covers defence, foreign affairs, trade & industry and international development), told the BBC he believed the government had broken its own anti-bribery laws by pulling the plug on the investigation into the multi-million pound contract with BAE systems.
"To sign the OECD convention and then effectively turn a blind eye to it is not the way people expect governments to behave.
"It is going to cause irreparable damage to the UK's reputation as an anti-corruption champion and I think the government ought to re-open the investigation into this very important case."
At PMQs, Mr Blair again told MPs he stood by his decision to drop the inquiry saying it was "in the interests of the country as a whole" - and the British public could make a judgment on that.
