A damning report on the Iraq war will not be made public until January as a panel of experts pore over the weight of evidence from the 18 months of hearings, the Standard understands... more
The paradox of London is that it has considerable poverty as well as areas of considerable wealth. The reality of urban deprivation was highlighted by this paper's Dispossessed campaign... more
Cover-up row erupts when official Iraq inquiry complains it has been banned from revealing records of the secret invasion talks between Tony Blair and George Bush... more
An official verdict on the legality of the Iraq war creeps closer after the Chilcot inquiry calls for international lawyers to submit their views on the conflict... more
Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell is under huge pressure to release papers to the Iraq inquiry after Downing Street says it wants “maximum transparency”... more
SIR John Chilcot said on the first day of his Iraq inquiry "no one is on trial". But when Tony Blair gives evidence on Friday there's no question that for many the defendant will be in the dock.... more
Gordon Brown has written to the Iraq Inquiry stressing that he is happy to appear 'at any time', he told the Commons as pressure mounts on PM to give evidence ahead of general election... more
New details of British intelligence on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction were set to be revealed today as two key witnesses appeared before the Iraq inquiry... more
Today our fifth inquiry into the Iraq war begins taking evidence in public. It is well over five years since I gave evidence to the third and fourth inquiries - Hutton in 2003 and Butler in 2004. But this new inquiry, chaired by Sir John Chilcot, is vital.... more
It is much to Sir John Chilcot's credit that the hearings of his Iraq inquiry will largely be held in public - starting tomorrow in Westminster... more
As the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war stutters into existence, it already looks as confused and uncertain as everything that has gone before in relation to the war... more
The head of the forthcoming inquiry into the Iraq war said it was "essential to hold as much of the proceedings of the inquiry as possible in public"... more
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