Former prime minister to be questioned in public and private over evidence he gave to panel on invasion’s legalityThe Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war is to summon Tony Blair back to give evidence and he will be asked to testify in both public and private, officials saidlast night.The former prime minister, who gave nearly [...]
On at least two crucial points, the Chilcot inquiry allowed Tony Blair to get away with murder (Righteous, responsible but no regrets: Blair’s day in the dock, 30 January). First, Blair continued to claim an essential link between Iraq and 9/11. It is a matter of record, however, that just a few hours after the 9/11 [...]
Counter-terrorism police say their discovery of a film of children being encouraged to hold guns is evidence of attempts to radicalise youngsters.
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 [...]
Homeopathy is big business, but a report by MPs is expected to conclude that there is no place for the controversial treatment in the health serviceAt a session of the House of Commons select committee on science and technology, the professional standards director of Boots, Paul Bennett, had a remarkable admission to make about one [...]
Tony Blair’s appearance at the Iraq inquiry is examined in detail in the papers with the Times among those to focus on his apparent lack of regret.
There is a planet, some way removed from the real one, on which Tony Blair lives. He invited the Chilcot inquiry to join him on it yesterday. On this alternative earth, certainties dissolve and falsehoods become truths. Facts are transformed into opinions and judgments turn into evidence. Success and failure are both the same. On [...]
Team behind British No 1 hail transformation that has taken him to verge of Grand SlamThose who glimpse Andy Murray only through the pressured two-week prism of Wimbledon fortnight may have struggled to square the relaxed, energised individual on show during successive victories in Melbourne this week with the surly Scot of popular imagination.But the [...]
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 [...]