Blog posts tagged "Sir John Chilcot"

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.

January 29, 2010 9:39 am 1 Comment

The Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, has sent a big fat "no" to the Iraq inquiry's request to publish quotations from the private letters that Tony Blair sent to President Bush.

January 27, 2010 8:19 pm 6 Comments

Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon examines the way Lord Goldsmith was questioned by the Iraq inquiry.

January 22, 2010 9:07 am 3 Comments

Sir John Chilcot's decision to take evidence from the prime minister not many weeks shy of a general election reminds you that it's not just the politicians who feel on trial here, writes Gary Gibbon.

December 17, 2009 5:15 pm 5 Comments

You don't need to look long at Sir John Chilcot's end of session statement today to think that there are some hurt feelings around.

November 25, 2009 1:32 pm 8 Comments

Most of the damage done to the government in the Hutton inquiry came from the documents, memos, emails, draft diaries, government papers, that poured out every day.

November 24, 2009 8:12 pm 3 Comments

Channel 4 News Political correspondent Gary Gibbon says the Iraq Inquiry so far has not unearthed as many documents as the Hutton Inquiry did.

10:06 am No Comments

Unlike the Hutton inquiry when documents poured out of government every day the opening taster at the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war is discouraging.

July 30, 2009 12:24 pm No Comments

At the Iraq Inquiry launch. Sir John Chilcot says don’t expect a report before the end of 2010 at the earliest. Witnesses will have to give undertakings that their evidence is truthful, fair and accurate. Senior figures in the US will be spoken to privately as they were in the Butler inquiry. That report concluded [...]

June 24, 2009 7:31 pm No Comments

Gordon Brown has a habit of upsetting people he’s asked to conduct inquiries. Adair Turner didn’t look like a man who’d like to take up another commission from Gordon Brown after his pensions inquiry. More recently, Sir Christopher Kelly’s team looking at MPs’ expenses was repeatedly publicly harried by No.10 and didn’t appreciate it.