My right hon. Friend makes an important point. I have had longer than anyone else to read the report, but I accept that trying to get to the bottom of that particular issue is difficult. Sir John Chilcot seems to be saying that the British Government had a policy of sort of coercive diplomacy—they wanted to use the pressure of the threat of military action to get Saddam to comprehensively disarm. Look, everyone is going to have to read the report and come to their own conclusions. From my reading of it, Sir John Chilcot is not accusing anyone of deliberate explicit deceit, but people will have to read the report and come to their own conclusions.
Report of the Iraq Inquiry
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 6 July 2016.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Report of the Iraq Inquiry.
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