DAVEY: BROWN MUST BRING FORWARD IRAQ INQUIRY BILL IN QUEEN’S SPEECH
Reacting to the Information Commissioner’s opinion that minutes from a Cabinet meeting on the decision to invade Iraq ‘proved the absence of sufficient discussion’, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, Edward Davey said: “Public confirmation of Clare Short’s claim that the Cabinet was not allowed to discuss properly the Attorney General’s advice is a damning indictment of Blair, Brown and the whole Labour leadership who sat round that table.
“The Information Commissioner has been vindicated: there is a clear public interest for these minutes to be released.
“Not to consider such a critical piece of legal advice on the eve of a major war makes a total mockery of Cabinet Government. Tony Blair broke the unwritten rules of our constitution, yet nothing has been done by Gordon Brown to prevent this happening again.
“The case for a public inquiry has been strengthened yet again. Gordon Brown must announce a bill to provide for this in next week’s Queen’s Speech.”
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