Chilcot gives a timetable – of sorts
The Chilcot blame game is in full flight today, everyone trying to make sure the public and the relatives of those who were killed or injured in Iraq don’t blame them for the long, long wait. Sir John...
View ArticleSyria debate: Johnson attacks ‘self-righteous certitude’
Alan Johnson’s intervention in the Syria debate was a well constructed argument built round the need to answer the call from the UN. But what really struck you was the sting in the tail. It was a...
View ArticleChilcot Inquiry: Blair –‘I will be with you, whatever’
The former Labour prime minister also personally agreed to deploy three brigades of combat troops two months before the 2003 invasion, without consulting his senior ministers. The inquiry, led by Sir...
View ArticleChilcot Inquiry: stinging criticism as families still grieve
Back at the QE2 Conference Centre where the Iraq Inquiry public hearings happened, we wait for Sir John Chilcot’s statement. The families of the dead and wounded take up the front 7 rows of seats –...
View ArticleBlair memo leaked: where is the Chilcot Inquiry?
In the leaked memo from 2002 Colin Powell told President Bush then Prime Minister Tony Blair “will be with us”.
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