When Tony Blair appeared at the Chilcot inquiry last week, the families of some of the British soldiers killed in Iraq were there to hear him defend his decision to go to war. Here Reg Keys, whose son was one of six military policemen brutally killed in 2003, writes about the mix of fierce anger [...]
Calls to clarify Lord Ashcroft’s position after revelation that he provided flights for William Hague’s visit to Havana last year, and then accompanied him to top-level meetingsIt was a scene that Graham Greene would surely have enjoyed: our men in Havana, a billionaire peer and a top Tory politician, sipping drinks on a 150ft yacht [...]
A defiant Tony Blair tells the Iraq inquiry it was right to remove Saddam and says he would take the same decision again.
What the former prime minister told the Chilcot panel in briefIn evidence to the Chilcot inquiry today, Tony Blair said:• “No regrets at removing Saddam Hussein. He was a monster and a threat. The world is safer as a result. He reflects on his decision every day.”If we had left Saddam in power, we [...]
Amid heckles, the former PM told Chilcot inquiry Saddam Hussein was a ‘monster’ who needed to be dealt withTony Blair told the Chilcot inquiry, at the end of six hours of evidence this afternoon, that he had no regrets for Britain’s part in the Iraq war and its aftermath.In a final statement before the hearing [...]
House price inflation looks set to reach double digits next monthHouse prices rose by 1.2% in January and the year-on-year rate of price inflation looks set to return to double figures next month, the UK’s largest building society said today.Despite the government’s decision to move the stamp duty threshold back down to £125,000 at the [...]
Former PM expected to tell inquiry that without military action Saddam would have built WMD using the team of scientists he had assembled for the taskTony Blair is today expected to deliver a robust defence of his decision to take Britain into war with Iraq, arguing that even though Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons [...]
ITV chairman defends chief executive choice and all but rules out sale of programme-making armITV chairman Archie Norman has staunchly defended his decision to overlook TV veterans in his international search for a chief executive, following today’s appointment of Adam Crozier, and all but ruled out further cost cuts or a sell-off of its programme-making [...]
The attorney general’s testimony offers a revealing insight into decision-making in the Blair governmentIn almost six hours of evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, only rarely did the former attorney general Lord Goldsmith come across as a witness struggling under a challenging cross-examination. But extensive new insight into the key events in the run-up to the [...]
Radio host Jon Gaunt wins permission to take High Court action against Ofcom for its decision to uphold complaints against him.