So there we are – the end of a pretty self-assured performance from Alastair Campbell, hardly surprising perhaps for a man accustomed to presenting an entire government. When we got to the final break of the day and Campbell nonchalantly asked the panel what they’d like to ask him about next – “What’s to go?” –…
Finally for today a few suggestions of our own. Evidence begins at 10h00 – Gary Gibbon will be inside the Inquiry room for the main bulletin and we’ll be Live Tweeting from the press-room next door throughout.
As promised, a small selection of the questions Twitter-users said they wanted to see Alastair Campbell asked during tomorrow’s session.
Alastair Campbell could be forgiven for having a touch of déjà vu when he wakes up tomorrow morning. As No. 10’s director of communications and strategy between the key years of 2001-2003 he was close to the heart – some claim too close – of the decision-making process in the run-up to the Iraq War, and the subsequent years and repeated inquiries haven’t let him forget that.
Jon Snow
Gordon Brown will announce an inquiry into the Iraq war this week. My sources tell me that this will not be chaired by a judge, senior or retired. It will be chaired instead by a historian. The hot tip in Whitehall is that it is likely to be the respected Churchill and Holocaust scholar Sir…