Iraq Inquiry Blog

The Iraq inquiry blogger looks forward to the day’s events

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?” –…

The Iraq Inquiry blogger watches Alastair Campbell face questions.

The Iraq inquiry blogger gives his observations 90 minutes in to Alastair Campbell’s evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Iraq between 2001 and 2009.

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.

Channel 4 News Iraq inquiry blogger writes that as the Iraq inquiry gears up for tomorrow’s appearance by Alastair Campbell, the inquiry’s Dutch equivalent prepares to release its own report on the Netherlands’ involvement in Iraq.

The Iraq inquiry blogger looks back at what had been learned from “phase 1” of the Chilcot inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war.

The Iraq Inquiry blogger looks ahead the final day of the ‘narrative’ part of proceedings.

The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger sums up another day of evidence.

Today’s hearing from the Iraq inquiry focuses on the consequences of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s 2008 Operation Charge of the Knights, which targeted the militias and criminal gangs of Basra

Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq inquiry is drowned out by the snow and the Brown plotters but things could get interesting again tomorrow, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger.

The Iraq Inquiry Blogger makes it through the snow to report on the day’s proceedings.

Our Iraq Inquiry blogger looks upon as the Silent Assassin Roderic Lyne strikes again.