Blog posts tagged "Iraq inquiry"

November 16, 2011 3:43 pm 1 Comment

At the start of the Leveson inquiry into media standards, Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon looks at the progress made by Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry.

July 25, 2011 5:13 pm 4 Comments

Tony Blair has received a letter from the Iraq Inquiry, suggesting he's being asked to respond to criticisms in the inquiry's draft report, writes our Political Editor.

February 2, 2011 2:24 pm 1 Comment

Gary Gibbon blogs on the Iraq Inquiry as the public sessions draw to a close - how long will we have to wait to get their report?

January 25, 2011 8:53 am 2 Comments

Gary Gibbon looks at what an un-named witness said to the Iraq Inquiry about war and evidence of WMDs.

June 30, 2010 4:40 pm 19 Comments

Interesting papers on the Iraq legal opinion released by the coalition government - there was a long fruitless struggle to get them from the last government.

March 5, 2010 3:52 pm 5 Comments

Gordon Brown has left the building. He closed his evidence repeatedly referring to his “sadness” at the lives lost in Iraq. There was no expression of regret. He thought it was the right war entered into for the right reasons, he repeatedly said. Everything he said, he said repeatedly.

2:51 pm 4 Comments

For those of you who were following that penultimate session with the Prime Minster, resource account budgeting lived up to its billing. It is tough stuff but central to the whole story of whether the MOD was getting enough money to make long-term investments in the sort of kit now very clearly needed. Gordon Brown [...]

12:45 pm 4 Comments

I’m not sure we learnt a lot more in the second session of the PM’s evidence to the Iraq inquiry. Gordon Brown was asked if he was aware that the Attorney General had changed his opinion substantially before giving war the legal go-ahead. He answered, “I wasn’t aware in any detail.” I think that means [...]

11:11 am 2 Comments

The Iraq inquiry team really did try to get Mr Brown to say whether he knew Tony Blair was committed to war (assuming other avenues failed) as early as the spring of 2002.

9:51 am 1 Comment

Gordon Brown before the Iraq inquiry.