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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Thu May 5, 2016, 07:52 AM May 2016

Chilcot report will not be published until after EU referendum

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise (not).

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/04/chilcot-inquiry-iraq-war-after-eu-referendum-says-no-10

The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will not be published until after the EU referendum, Downing Street has confirmed.

Ministers had previously said the report by Sir John Chilcot would appear in the summer, amid pressure for publication as soon as it is handed over to the government.

In the firmest timetable so far, David Cameron told MPs on Wednesday that it would be “not too much longer” after the EU referendum on 23 June.

That would be almost exactly seven years after the inquiry was ordered by Labour prime minister Gordon Brown in late July 2009.

In a response to a question from Tory backbencher David Amess about whether his 100-year-old mother could expect to live to see the report as well as the EU referendum, the Cameron said: “I think I can reassure Maud that this summer she’ll have I think a double opportunity to deal with these things, a referendum on 23 June, and I’m sure the Chilcot report will come not too much longer after that.”

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