69. Mordaunt, Penny, interview, The Andrew Marr Show, BBC 1, 22 May 2016
70. Mason, Rowena, ‘Cameron Accuses EU Leave Campaigners of Telling Six Lies’, Guardian, 7 June 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/cameron-accuses-eu-leave-campaigners-six-lies-brexit; Peston on Sunday, ITV, 22 May 2016
71. ‘Turkey EU Accession Poses Security Risk: Michael Gove’, BBC News, 8 June 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36479259
72. Khan, Sadiq, response, EU Referendum: The Great Debate, BBC 1, 21 June 2016
73. ‘Michael Gove “Shuddered” at UKIP Migrants Poster’, BBC News, 19 June 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36570759
74. Farage, Nigel, interview, Peston on Sunday, ITV, 19 June 2017
75. Shipman, p297
76. Travis, Alan, ‘Lasting Rise in Hate Crime After EU Referendum, Figures Show’, Guardian, 7 September 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/07/hate-surged-after-eureferendum-police-figures-show
7. Where Power Lies
1. Moore, Charles, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not For Turning, London, Allen Lane, 2013, p667
2. Ibid., p711
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p712
5. Ibid., p713
6. Rossiter, Mike, Sink the Belgrano, London, Corgi, 2008, p333
7. Chippindale, Peter, and Chris Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper, London, Pocket Books, 1999, p140
8. Hansard, HL (series 5) vol 429, col 1074, 4 May 1982, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1982/may/04/the-falkland-islands
9. Hansard, HC (series 6) vol 33, col 103W, 29 December 1982, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1982/nov/29/general-belgrano
10. Hansard, HC (series 6) vol 34, col 895, 21 December 1982, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1982/dec/21/falklands-campaign
11. Dalyell, Tam, Misrule: How Mrs Thatcher Has Misled Parliament, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1987, p37
12. Hansard, HC (series 6) vol 23, col 19, 4 May 1982, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/volumes/6C/23
13. Moore, p714
14. Dalyell, p53
15. Hansard, HC (series 6) vol 34, col 59W, 14 December 1982, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1982/dec/14/general-belgrano
16. Hansard, HC (series 6) vol 34, col 199W, 16 December 1982, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1982/dec/16/general-belgrano
17. Andrews, Nigel, ‘Margaret Thatcher Rejoices – and Splits the Country in Two’, Financial Times, 8 December 2007, https://www.ft.com/content/72b2bfea-a13d-11dc-9f34-0000779fd2ac
18. ‘History of the BBC: The Falklands Conflict 1982’, BBC, n.d. (accessed 5 May 2017), http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/culture/bbc-and-gov/falklands
19. Nationwide (On the Spot), BBC 1, 24 May 1983, transcript available at Margaret Thatcher Foundation, http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105147
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. BSE Inquiry Report, Volume 1: Findings and Conclusions, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2000, pxx, available at National Archives, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20060715141954/http://bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/contents.htm
23. Hansard, HC (series 6) vol 274, col 375, 20 March 1996, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1996/mar/20/bse-health
24. BSE Inquiry Report, Volume 1, pxvii
25. ‘Madness: Special Report – The BSE Crisis’, Observer, 29 October 2000, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/bse.focus1
26. BSE Inquiry Report, Volume 1, pxix
27. Assinder, Nick, ‘Phillips Report Packs a Punch’, BBC News, 26 October 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/992883.stm
28. BSE Inquiry Report, Volume 3: The Early Years, 1986–88, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2000, section 2.53, available at National Archives, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20060715141954/http://bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/volume3/toc.htm
29. Ibid., section 5.21
30. Ibid., section 5.69
31. Ibid., section 5.101
32. Ibid., section 5.30
33. Ibid., sections 5.62, 5.67
34. BSE Inquiry Report, Volume 4: The Southwood Working Party, 1988–89, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2000, section 2.4, available at National Archives, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20060715141954/http://bseinquiry.gov.uk/report/volume4/chapter2.htm
35. Ibid., section 10.42
36. BSE Inquiry Report, Volume 1, pxxiii
37. Ibid., pxxvi
38. Ibid., pxxvii
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid., pxxiii
41. ‘On This Day: 16 May 1990 – Gummer Enlists Daughter in BSE Fight’, BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16/newsid_2913000/2913807.stm
42. Ibid.
43. BSE Inquiry Report, Volume 1, pxviii
44. Ibid., pxxvii
45. Ibid., pxviii
46. Godlee, Fiona, Jane Smith and Harvey Marcovitch, ‘Wakefield’s Article Linking MMR Vaccine and Autism Was Fraudulent’, BMJ 342, 6 January 2011, http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452
47. Moriarty, Richard, Lauren Veevers and Tom Newton Dunn, ‘Hillsborough: The Real Truth’, The Sun, 12 September 2012, https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/915727/hillsborough-the-real-truth
48. The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, September 2012, p25, http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/report/main-section/part-2/chapter-12/page10a
49. Ibid., p349, http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/report/main-section/part-2/chapter-12/page-4/index.html
50. Ibid., p16, http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/report/Section-1/summary/page-8/index.html
51. Ingham, Sir Bernard, letter to Graham Skinner, 30 December 1996, quoted in David Bartlett, ‘Sir Bernard Ingham 1996 Letter: Liverpool Should “Shut Up” About Hillsborough’, Echo, 16 January 2013, http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sir-bernardingham-1996-letter-3324915
52. Ingham, Sir Bernard, letter to Hillsborough campaigners, 8 July 1996, quoted in David McCarthy, ‘Police and FA Guilty of Hillsborough Hooliganism, Not Fans’, Daily Record, 27 April 2016, http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/david-mccarthy-police-fa-guilty-7839720
53. ‘Summary of Chapter 11: Review and Alteration of Statements’, Report of The Hillsborough Independent Panel, http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/report/Section-1/summary/page-13
54. Interim Report of the Taylor Inquiry into the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, London, Home Office, August 1989, p96, http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/HOM000028040001.html
55. Ibid., p104
56. Ibid., pp105–6
57. Slocock, Caroline (Private Secretary, 10 Downing Street), letter to Peter Storr, Home Office, 3 August 1989, evidence to Hillsborough Independent Panel, http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/HOM000013060001.html
58. Straw, Jack, interview, Today, BBC Radio 4, 13 September 2012, http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9751000/9751006.stm
59. Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, p365, http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/SYP000046060001.html
60. Ibid., p361, http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/report/main-section/part-2/chapter-12/page-8/index.html
61. ‘Hillsborough Inquests: The Questions the Jury Had to Consider’, BBC News, 26 April 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-35401436
62. Quoted in Steven Swinford, ‘Hillsborough: MP Finally Apologises After 23 Years’, Telegraph, 13 September 2012, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/9542091/Hillsborough-MPfinallyapologises-after-23-years.html
63. Robertson, Geoffrey, The Justice Game, London, Vintage, 2011, p314
64. Trewin, Ion, Alan Clark: The Biography, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009, p350; Neil, Andrew, Full Disclosure, London,
Pan, 1996, p404
65. Quoted in Robertson, Justice Game, pp338–9
66. Ibid., p335
67. Ibid., p332
68. Quoted in ibid., p326
69. Ibid.
70. Quoted in ibid., p318
71. Lewis, James, ‘Interview With UK Secretary Of State For Justice Ken Clarke – Transcript’, website of International Bar Association, 8 September 2016 (interview conducted in November 2011), www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=-F4A4D433-36F9-4D3B-A3CA-ED94A30EF09A
72. Robertson, Justice Game, p320
73. Oborne, Peter, The Rise of Political Lying, New York, Free Press, 2005, p19
74. Trewin, p360
75. Ibid., p350
76. Robertson, p337
77. Quoted in ibid., p338
78. Norton-Taylor, Richard, Truth is a Difficult Concept: Inside the Scott Inquiry, London, Fourth Estate, 1995, p33
79. Ibid., p32
80. Waldegrave, William, A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir, London, Constable, 2015, p249
81. Robertson, p331
82. Oborne, p268
83. Norton-Taylor, p65
84. Ibid., p67
85. Ibid., p68
86. Ibid., p264
87. Ibid., p89
88. Ibid., p25
89. Ibid., p223
90. Scott, Sir Richard, Report of the Inquiry into the Export of Defence Equipment and Dual-Use Goods to Iraq and Related Prosecutions, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1996, p1799
91. Rawnsley, Andrew, The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour, London, Penguin, 2010, p36
92. Blair, Tony, A Journey: My Political Life, London, Hutchinson, 2010, p386
93. Blair, Tony, speech, Labour Party Conference, Brighton, 28 September 2004, transcript available at BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3697434.stm
94. Blair, Tony, Prime Minister’s Press Conference, Sedgefield, 3 September 2012, transcript available at National Archives, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20060802134639/http://number10.gov.uk/page3001
95. Campbell, Alastair, The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq – The Alastair Campbell Diaries vol. 4, London, Hutchinson, 2012, pp291, 293
96. Powell, Sandra (on behalf of Alastair Campbell), email to Jonathan Powell, 5 September 2002, evidence to Hutton inquiry, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20051219094446/http://the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/cab/cab_11_0017.pdf
97. Smith, Godric, email to Daniel Pruce and Alastair Campbell, 11 September 2002, evidence to Hutton inquiry, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20051219094446/http://the-huttoninquiry.org.uk/content/cab/cab_11_0023to0024.pdf
98. Kelly, Tom, email to Alastair Campbell, 18 September 2002, evidence to Hutton inquiry, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20051219094446/http://the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/cab/cab_11_0091to0092.pdf
99. Prince, Rosa, ‘Civil Servants Had Serious Concerns over Iraq “Dodgy Dossier” ’, Telegraph, 13 March 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/4980103/Civil-servantshad-serious-concerns-over-Iraq-dodgydossier.html
100. ‘Q&A: The Weapons Evidence’, BBC News, 20 July 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3895967.stm
101. ‘Inquiry Calls over Iraq Dossier’, BBC News, 12 March 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7939726.stm; Rawnsley, p114
102. Rawnsley, p114
103. Powell, Jonathan, email to Alastair Campbell, 19 September 2002, evidence to Hutton inquiry, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20051219094446/http://the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/cab/cab_11_0103.pdf
104. Hansard, HC (series 6) vol 417, col 822, 4 February 2004, http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/2004/feb/04/lord-huttons-report
105. Chilcot, Sir John, The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Section 4.2: Iraq WMD Assessments, July to September 2002, p116, http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/media/248177/the-report-of-the-iraqinquiry_section-42.pdf
106. ‘Timeline: The 45-Minute Claim’, BBC News, 13 October 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3466005.stm
107. Ibid.
108. Ibid.
109. Ibid.
110. Lord Hutton, Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr David Kelly, p131, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20051219094446/http://the-huttoninquiry.org.uk/content/report/index.htm
111. Ibid., p124
112. Chilcot, p231
113. Hutton, p131
114. Hansard, HC (series 6) vol 390, col 3, 24 September 2002, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020924/debtext/20924-01.htm
115. Powell, email to Campbell, 19 September 2002
116. Blair, p453
117. Lord Butler, Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2004, p126, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090120202433/http:/archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/butlerreview/report/report.pdf
118. Ibid.
119. Ibid., p127
120. Chilcot, p6
121. Rawnsley, p100
122. Hansard, HC (series 6), vol 399, col 25, 3 February 2003, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030203/debtext/30203-06.htm
123. ‘Downing Street Dossier Plagiarised’, Channel 4 News, 6 February 2003, http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/downing%2bst%2bdossier%2bplagiarised%2b%2b%2b/253293.html
8. Breaking Their Word
1. ‘Commander in Chief Lands on USS Lincoln’, CNN, 2 May 2003, http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/01/bush.carrier.landing
2. Murphy, Jarrett, ‘Text of Bush Speech’, CBS/Associated Press, 1 May 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/text-of-bush-speech-01-05-2003
3. ‘Bush Lands Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln’, Fox News, 2 May 2003, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/05/02/bush-lands-aboard-uss-abrahamlincoln.html
4. Lyke, M. L., ‘Commander in Chief’s Visit Sets Aircraft Carrier’s Crew Abuzz’, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 May 2003, http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Commander-in-chief-s-visit-setsaircraft-1113821.php
5. Quoted in Kate Phillips, ‘Bush: “I Was Unprepared for War” ’, New York Times, 1 December 2008, https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/bush-i-was-unprepared-for-war
6. ‘Barack Obama: All US Troops to Leave Iraq in 2011’, BBC News, 21 October 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15410154
7. Murphy, ‘Text of Bush Speech’
8. Murphy, Jarrett, ‘ “Mission Accomplished” Whodunit’, CBS/Associated Press, 29 October 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mission-accomplished-whodunit
9. Conason, Joe, ‘Joe Conason’s Journal: Bush’s “Top Gun” Get-Up’, Salon, 2 May 2003, http://www.salon.com/2003/05/02/topgun
10. ‘Bush Lands Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln’, Fox News
11. ‘Gordon Brown Steps In to Secure HBOS Rescue’, The Times, 17 September 2008, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gordon-brown-steps-into-secure-hbos-rescue-f66m33jbbdm
12. ‘UK Banks Receive £37bn Bail-Out’, BBC News, 13 October 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7666570.stm
13. Titcomb, James, ‘The Government Has Made Back Half of the £20.5bn It Paid to Bail Out Lloyds’, Telegraph, 12 May 2015, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/lloy/11598849/Government-cuts-Lloydsstake-below-20pc.html
14. Treanor, Jill, ‘UK Government Starts Royal Bank of Scotland Sell-Off’, Guardian, 3 August 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/03/uk-government-starts-royalbank-of-scotland-sell-off-rbs
15. Treanor, Jill, ‘RBS Reports £7bn Loss and Says It Will Not Make Profit Until 2018’, Guardian, 24 February 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/24/rbs-loss-profit-bank
16. Rawnsley, Andrew, ‘The Weekend Gordon Brown Saved the Banks from the Abyss’, Guardian, 21 February 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/feb/21/gordon-brownsaved-banks
17. Stratton, Allegra, Toby Helm and Raje
ev Syal, ‘RBS Bankers May Still Receive Bonuses Despite Treasury Probe into Pay’, Guardian, 8 February 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/feb/08/rbs-bankers-couldreceive-bonuses
18. Treanor, Jill, ‘ “Fred Goodwin’s Folly” Given New Use by RBS Chief Executive’, Guardian, 4 March 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/mar/04/fred-goodwin-follyedinburgh-rbs-rbs-mcewan
19. ‘Former RBS CEO Goodwin Paid £1.3 Million for 2008’, Reuters, 8 March 2009, http://uk.reuters.com/article/ukrbs-pay-idUKTRE52854520090309
20. ‘Supplementary Memorandum from UK Financial Investments: Annex’, House of Commons Treasury Committee, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmtreasy/144/144iii04.htm
21. Pierce, Andrew, ‘Sir Fred Goodwin Agrees to Pension Cut’, Telegraph, 19 June 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/5570311/Sir-Fred-Goodwinagrees-to-pension-cut.html
22. House of Commons Treasury Committee, Banking Crisis: Reforming Corporate Governance and Pay in the City, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 12 May 2009, https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmtreasy/519/51906.htm
23. House Treasury Committee, Banking Crisis
24. Ibid.
25. ‘Brown Vows to Claw Pension Back’, BBC News, 27 February 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7914993.stm
26. Hencke, David, ‘Harriet Harman Increases Pressure over Sir Fred Goodwin’s Pension’, Guardian, 1 March 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/mar/01/harriet-harman-sir-fred-goodwin
27. ‘Sir Fred Goodwin’s Letter to Lord Myners Regarding His Pension’, Telegraph, 26 February 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4840511/Sir-Fred-Goodwins-letter-to-Lord-Myners-regarding-his-pension.html
28. Ibid.
29. Treanor, Jill, ‘Fred Goodwin Pension Row: 90% of RBS Shareholders Vote Against Pay Report’, Guardian, 3 April 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/apr/03/fred-goodwinpension-rbs-agm
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