Any real chance of today’s DfID and Treasury witnesses getting onto the news bulletins was pretty much scuppered by the news Gordon Brown would appear before the inquiry.
Gary Gibbon
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.
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks back on Sir John Chilcot’s previous statements about when Gordon Brown would give evidence to the Iraq inqury.
Just time for a short entry this evening. Had part planned a mini-rant about why on earth Jack Straw – the war-time Foreign Secretary – was only being allocated a paltry three hour session by the Inquiry, but now of course we know he’ll be coming back for another one in about a fortnight.
So how did Jack Straw go from lefty student to foreign secretary during a war? The Iraq Inquiry Blogger takes a deeper look.
In his explosive evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, former security and intelligence coordinator Sir David Omand fingers MI6 for failing to correctly interpret intelligence over weapons of mass destruction.
Geoff Hoon lands blows on prime ministers past and present as the former defence secretary appears before the Iraq inquiry, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger.
Gary Gibbon
Former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told the Iraq inquiry a paper was prepared for Tony Blair to take to the April 2002 Crawford summit listing the three military options for the UK if it joined in with the US attack on Iraq.
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks ahead to the kind of questions the panel is expected to ask former defence secretary Geoff Hoon later today.
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks ahead to the witnesses scheduled to appear in week seven of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.
Our Iraq Inquiry blogger takes us through the end of a busy week for the inquiry.
The Iraq Inquiry blogger reports on the evidence given by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Turnbull.
Alastair Campbell would have been wise to avoid the newspaper headlines this morning, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger.
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?” –…