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  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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