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Iraq Inquiry

The Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister are now petrified that, as some of the hearings will be in public, the inquiry will inevitably—and rightly, I think—run for longer, and that the members of it who have been invited under the old order of seven or eight days ago might say, "Well, I'm not prepared to give up a year or more of my life attending for three days a week." They will have to attend, too, whereas when a committee is held behind closed doors, nobody knows who is, and is not, in attendance at any given time.