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Did Tony Blair suppress legal advice on Iraq War?

Written on:June 25, 2023

Former prime minister Tony Blair has scraped claims that he used his power to suppress legal advice which could have prevented the Cabinet from okaying the Iraq War. The ex-PM’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell put down in his diaries in March 2003 that Blair barred Attorney General Lord Goldsmith from explaining fully to the ministers the realities of the Iraq War. Adversaries of the Iraq War recently accessed the spin…

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