Channel 4 News will be blogging the Iraq Inquiry, the unprecedented investigation into how the UK became involved in the Iraq conflict, how the war was fought and what befell the people of Iraq afterwards.
Gary Gibbon
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…
Gary Gibbon
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.