Lord Hutton's Report

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:43 pm on 4 February 2004.

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Photo of James Plaskitt James Plaskitt Labour, Warwick and Leamington 1:43, 4 February 2004

I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way on the subject of the naming of Dr. Kelly. On 11 January this year, the right hon. and learned Gentleman accused the Government thus:

"the deliberate disclosure of confidential information . . . that's exactly what the Government were about."

On that, Lord Hutton concluded:

"there was no strategy . . . devised by the Prime Minister and his officials to leak Dr. Kelly's name."

Given that the right hon. and learned Gentleman now says that he accepts the Hutton report, does he also accept that he was wrong on 11 January?