Agriculture minister John Gummer with his 4 year old daughter Cordelia, tuck into a beefburger on a visit to the East Coast Boat Show in Ipswich. The possilbe danger of the BSE disease in British beef was scuppered by the minister. * in an attempt to calm public fears when the beef scare first broke in 1990. Mr Gummer, now Environment Secretary snapped angrily at James Naughtie, presenter of Radio 4's Today programme, when he asked if Mr Gummer now regretted posing for the picture. *25/10/2000 Mr Gummer and other senior members of the Thatcher and Major administrations are bracing themselves for harsh criticism of their handling of the BSE crisis, as the Government publishes the long-awaited results of the inquiry into Britain's biggest public health disaster. Lord Phillips' report, to be published Thursday October 26 2000 is expected to condemn the former Tory government's slow reaction to the crisis and ministers' refusal to accept that humans might be made ill by eating beef from infected cows. 26/10/00: Mr Gummer and other senior members of the Thatcher and Major administrations are bracing themselves for harsh criticism of their handling of the BSE crisis, as the Government publishes the long-awaited results of the inquiry into Britain's biggest public health disaster. Lord Phillips' report, published Thursday October 26 2000, is expected to condemn the former Tory government's slow reaction to the crisis and ministers' refusal to accept that humans might be made ill by eating beef from infected cows.

Agriculture minister John Gummer with his 4 year old daughter Cordelia, tuck into a beefburger on a visit to the East Coast Boat Show in Ipswich. The possilbe danger of the BSE disease in British beef was scuppered by the minister. * in an attempt to calm public fears when the beef scare first broke in 1990. Mr Gummer, now Environment Secretary snapped angrily at James Naughtie, presenter of Radio 4's Today programme, when he asked if Mr Gummer now regretted posing for the picture. *25/10/2000 Mr Gummer and other senior members of the Thatcher and Major administrations are bracing themselves for harsh criticism of their handling of the BSE crisis, as the Government publishes the long-awaited results of the inquiry into Britain's biggest public health disaster. Lord Phillips' report, to be published Thursday October 26 2000 is expected to condemn the former Tory government's slow reaction to the crisis and ministers' refusal to accept that humans might be made ill by eating beef from infected cows. 26/10/00: Mr Gummer and other senior members of the Thatcher and Major administrations are bracing themselves for harsh criticism of their handling of the BSE crisis, as the Government publishes the long-awaited results of the inquiry into Britain's biggest public health disaster. Lord Phillips' report, published Thursday October 26 2000, is expected to condemn the former Tory government's slow reaction to the crisis and ministers' refusal to accept that humans might be made ill by eating beef from infected cows.