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Chilcot has lost control says Blair’s ex law chief: Former Attorney General blames chairman for letting inquiry drag on and attacks ‘feebleness’ at the cross examination of witnesses
- Lord Morris says Sir John Chilcot has lost control of the Iraq inquiry
- Attacked the chairman for the feebleness when cross examining witnesses
- Added he wouldn’t have hired Sir John to run the inquiry into the conflict
- Says that the families of those killed in Iraq deserve to be treated better
By Jason Groves
Lord Morris, the attorney general in Tony Blair’s first government, launched a withering attack on Sir John Chilcot yesterday, blaming him personally for letting the Iraq inquiry drag on for more than six years.
He claimed Sir John had ‘lost control’ and said he was ‘dismayed at the feebleness of the cross-examination of witnesses’.
The attack came as families of troops killed in Iraq denounced accusations that their criticisms of the inquiry were part of an Establishment plot to discredit it.
Sir John Chilcot, who has been accused of losing control of the Iraq Inquiry, which has dragged on for more than six years
The allegations – from a source within the inquiry – were dismissed as ‘nonsense’ and ‘laughable’ by grieving relatives.
The intervention by Lord Morris, a criminal barrister who served as attorney general between 1997 and 1999, also included a scathing assault on the abilities of the inquiry panel.
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