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Ex-defence chief at Iraq inquiry
London :: United Kingdom | about 2 hours ago
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Admiral Lord Boyce, who was Chief of the Defence Staff in the lead-up to the invasion in 2003, is to give evidence. The most senior civil servant at the Ministry of the Defence at the time, Sir Kevin Tebbit, will also appear. The inquiry has been seeking...
Tags: Iraq, United Kingdom, London, Politics, John Chilcot, Michael Boyce Baron Boyce, Andrew Gilligan, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, Chief of the Defence Staff, War Conflict, Tony Blair
Blair, Iraq and climate comrades
Reading :: United Kingdom | about 5 hours ago
Credibility This is not because of fresh insight into the science, which I never understood in the first place. Nor is it because of the dodgy emails recently discovered at the University of East Anglia, which I don't understand either. It is because the deniers'...
Tags: Tony Blair, Iraq, United Kingdom, Reading, Sedgefield, Trimdon, Gordon Brown, invasion of Iraq, John Byng, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, The Deniers
Yesterday in parliament
London :: United Kingdom | about 12 hours ago
Credibility Afghanistan Gordon Brown welcomed Barack Obama's pledge to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. The prime minister told the Commons that a "very substantial" number of the extra US troops would be going to Helmand to assist British forces in dealing...
Tags: Afghanistan Gordon Brown, prime minister, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Prime Minister's Questions, Liberal Democrats, Gordon Brown, James Goldsmith, George Osborne, Tony Blair, Paul Myners Baron Myners, David Cameron, Parliament of the United Kingdom, David Davis, Estate tax in the United States, Inheritance Tax, Ben Bradshaw
Straw rues 2007 election U-turn
London :: United Kingdom | about 15 hours ago
Credibility Labour's not calling general election in 2007 was error, says Jack Straw Upbeat Gordon Brown takes aim at privileged Tories as poll lead narrows Jack Straw admitted 'in hindsight' it was the wrong decision not to hold a general election in 2007. Photograph:...
Tags: Jack Straw, general elections, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Gordon Brown, Downing Street, Conservative Party, Labour Party, Zac Goldsmith, Old Etonians, Tony Blair
Chilcot failing to show any teeth | Chris Ames
London :: United Kingdom | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Chilcot failing to show any teeth It's too soon to call it a whitewash or a cover-up, but as the Iraq inquiry goes on the benefit of my doubt recedes With Lord Mandelson attacking Sir Christopher Meyer for being "absurd" the last piece of the government's...
Tags: regime change, Christopher Meyer, Tony Blair, Iraq, John Chilcot, Saddam Hussein, Mandelson, iraq inquiry, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Peter Mandelson, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
Help us unravel former PM's finances
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility The mystery of Tony Blair's finances Since Tony Blair stepped down, he has received millions of pounds from an unusual mixture of income streams...Can you shed any light on them? Tony Blair has a consultancy, charities and a multimillion-pound book deal.
Tags: Tony Blair, Tony Blair Associates, Mr Blair, limited partnerships, Windrush Ventures Ltd, Windrush LP, prime minister, called windrush, family limited, Matthew Doyle, United Kingdom, London, Trimdon, Sedgefield, Limited partnership, Politics, Business Finance, Tony Blair
Postwar Iraq hobbled by lack of funds
Baghdad :: Iraq | 2 days ago
Credibility Two senior Foreign Office officials told the inquiry the UK’s post-conflict efforts in Basra lacked money and manpower, in the first testimony to touch on the adequacy of resources devoted to the war. Sir Peter Ricketts, then political director, stressed...
Tags: Iraq, Blair-Bush Texas, Tony Blair, Edward Chaplin, iraq war, US-UK, war planning, Foreign Office, iraq inquiry, Baghdad, Politics, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, War Conflict, invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, the United States, Operation Red Dawn, David Manning, Legality of the Iraq War, Osseiran family, Politics of Iraq, Rationale for the Iraq War, Peter Goldsmith Baron Goldsmith, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, Chilcot Inquiry, Iraq conflict, Ahmed Chalabi, International law, Trial of Saddam Hussein, Iraq document leak 18 September
The Cabinet: Who's Who
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Tessa Jowell The 2009 reshuffle saw Tessa Jowell, a keen supporter of Tony Blair, return to the cabinet...Despite her latest promotion, Ms Jowell is also remaining in the Olympics job...Hilary Benn Hilary Benn was moved from international development...
Tags: New Labour, Labour Left, Labour Party, Cabinet Office, Tessa Jowell, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Northern Ireland, Parliamentary Private, Mr Mandelson, United Kingdom, London, Blairism, Ed Miliband, Politics, Peter Mandelson, Jewish atheists, David Miliband
Blair was 'willing to use force' in Iraq
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 days ago
Credibility Blair told Bush he was willing to join, 11 months before war • Adviser tells of crucial moment at Texas ranch • Chilcot panel attacked for failure to press questions A demonstrator burns a mask of Tony Blair outside the Chilcot Iraq inquiry.
Tags: Chilcot Iraq, Iraqi, Tony Blair, Mr Blair, George W. Bush, Mr Bush, Saddam Hussein, David Manning, sir david, iraq inquiry, Iraq, Baghdad, Politics, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, the United States, War Conflict, Downing Street memo, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Iraq document leak 18 September, Memoranda, the United Kingdom, Peter Goldsmith Baron Goldsmith, Attorneys General for England and Wales, Iraq War, Margaret Thatcher, Legality of the Iraq War, Public relations preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Special Relationship, March, Sedgefield
'Both Israel, Palestinians want peace'
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Quartet envoy to the Middle East Tony Blair expressed optimism for peace between Israel and the Palestinians on Sunday, while pushing for negotiations to "get underway as quickly as possible." Speaking to CNN's John King, the former UK prime minister...
Tags: Israel, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Trimdon, Two-state solution, West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu, Zionism, Quartet on the Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Tony Blair, Gilad Shalit, Sedgefield, Israeli￢ﾀﾓPalestinian conflict, Palestine Liberation Organization, Peace process in the Israeli￢ﾀﾓPalestinian conflict
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