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Blair deliberately misled colleagues and public over Iraq, says Clare Short
Source: The Guardian
Blair deliberately misled colleagues and public over Iraq, says Clare Short
Foreign Office is trying to overturn a decision to disclose details of a conversation between Blair and George Bush
Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 March 2012 17.45 BST
A former cabinet minister has accused Tony Blair of deliberately misleading his colleagues and the public over a dispute central to the government's decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Clare Short, former Labour international development secretary, told an information tribunal that Blair and his close advisers misrepresented the French position on the need for a new UN resolution backing war.
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The Foreign Office is trying to overturn a decision by Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, to disclose records of a conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush about the UN and the French position, days before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Disclosing that the evidence was "fantastically important for the people of Britain and the historical record", Short told the tribunal.
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Foreign Office is trying to overturn a decision to disclose details of a conversation between Blair and George Bush
Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 March 2012 17.45 BST
A former cabinet minister has accused Tony Blair of deliberately misleading his colleagues and the public over a dispute central to the government's decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Clare Short, former Labour international development secretary, told an information tribunal that Blair and his close advisers misrepresented the French position on the need for a new UN resolution backing war.
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The Foreign Office is trying to overturn a decision by Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, to disclose records of a conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush about the UN and the French position, days before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Disclosing that the evidence was "fantastically important for the people of Britain and the historical record", Short told the tribunal.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/29/tony-blair-iraq-clare-short
