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Iraq

My hon. Friend speaks of the mistakes that were made at the time. Indeed, in their amendment the Government talk of"““the importance of learning all possible lessons””" from what went wrong. Does he agree that there is a widely perceived inadequacy in the inquiries that have taken place so far, which have completely failed to address the mistakes that were made or to reassure the House and the public more widely that the lessons have been learned? Does he agree that in saying that this is not the right time for a major inquiry the Government would be in a much stronger position if they were to tell us when the right time would be?