Blame Robert Maxwell: How Public Inquiries Go Wrong
Frederick Wilmot-Smith, 17 March 2016
On 15 June 2009, Gordon Brown announced an inquiry into the Iraq war – to investigate, as Sir John Chilcot, the inquiry’s chairman, put it, ‘the UK’s involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned.’ Although oral hearings finished in early 2011, the inquiry won’t report until the middle of this year...