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Iraq inquiry told it cannot publish Blair-Bush letters
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.
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