Iraq (Judicial Inquiry)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:05 pm on 22 October 2003.

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Photo of Jack Straw Jack Straw Foreign Secretary 2:05, 22 October 2003

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On the question of a wider inquiry that covers areas other than those that we have already inquired into, I think that the lament of the right hon. Member for Devizes is that those inquiries have failed to come up with the right answer. Let him be clear that the scope of such an inquiry would have to cover why the other 14 members of the Security Council came to the same conclusion as us, namely that there was a threat from Iraq because of its proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. That is at the heart of the matter. I give way to the former Chancellor.