I am familiar with the insistence that, in some way, this is hugely important. That is not the impression that the public are being given or, if I may say so, that the right hon. Gentleman, among others, is striving every day to give them. The public are being given the impression, not that the intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was sporadic and patchy but that it was there, but that the intelligence services and the then Prime Minister knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction and deliberately misled the House. That is not true and was never true. No attempt—
Report of the Iraq Inquiry
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Beckett
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 13 July 2016.
It occurred during Debate on Report of the Iraq Inquiry.
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