Iraq inquiry: Gary Gibbon on Campbell, Brown and the first ‘titter’
Political editor Gary Gibbon reflects on Alastair Campbell’s first round of evidence at the Iraq war inquiry.
Political editor Gary Gibbon reflects on Alastair Campbell’s first round of evidence at the Iraq war inquiry.
Alastair Campbell, speaking to the Iraq Inquiry, called the publication of the second intelligence dossier, dubbed the “dodgy dossier” in February 2003 a “mistake”.
The Iraq Inquiry Blogger reveals details of the ballot for those who want to be in the chamber when Tony Blair gives evidence to Sir John Chilcot.
Channel 4 News’s Iraq inquiry blogger looks back over coverage of the inquuiry during the Christmas break and ahead to evidence this week and later in the year.
An interesting start to today’s session when journos and bloggers in the press room were told that a date given by one of last week’s witnesses – Sir William Ehrman – was wrong and had now been corrected in the transcript. Conspiracy theorists are already at work. Who is “fiddling”, asks one of this site’s…
Sir David Manning gives the Iraq inquiry the first insider’s account of the infamous Crawford Texas summit of April 2002 where Tony Blair and George Bush are supposed to have signed up to go to war.
Not many people get to sit in on private meetings between presidents and prime ministers in the Oval Office of the White House. Today the Iraq inquiry hears from one who did. Sir David Manning was security adviser to Tony Blair in the run up to the Iraq war. And it was no ordinary meeting…
Iraq war inquiry day three throws up a few gremlins and evidence that Bush and Blair may have agreed on the invasion at private talks in Texas 11 months before the war began, writes the Iraq Inquiry blogger for Channel 4 News.
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry Blogger looks at the press reactin to the first day at the Iraq Inquiry.
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger says there has been a flurry of excitement among journalists as details emerge about intelligence concerning Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons plan, received on the eve of the conflict led by Tony Blair and George W Bush.
Cathy Ashton succeeded Peter Mandelson as trade commissioner and has, it is said, hugely impressed the EU Commission President Manuel Barroso.
The Spanish Prime Minister last week asked Gordon Brown if HE would be the new President of Europe – a sign of how fluid today’s discussions on who will get the top EU job are.
Am on the Eurostar heading for the Brussels carve-up of top jobs. Word last night from the Blair camp was that their man has pretty much given up on getting the presidency of the European Council. Word from Paris and Berlin that they see the job as an internal affairs post dealing with issues like…
Three days before a special European summit, the odds are still that the EU leaders will appoint a non-English speaking former communist from Italy to represent it on foreign affairs and a low-key Belgian Prime Minister as President.
Jon Snow blogs on the repercussions after 23 CIA operatives were found guilty in Italy over rendition of a terror suspect.