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Iraq Dossier (September 2002)

I suggest that the Minister is not addressing my central point. One accepts that elements of the intelligence were ropey and that in effect four inquiries have looked into the matter. However, my central point was that both Lord Hutton and Lord Butler accepted those points and accepted that the document had been sexed up, but thought that that was legitimate because the drafting process was owned by the JIC. The new evidence suggests that that was not the case—that spin doctors were on the inside of the process, driving it forward, and that that accounts for the sexing up. Will the Minister focus on that point about what the new evidence shows about the drafting process?