65. Interview, Alastair Campbell
66. Daily Mail, 5 December 2002
67. Interview, Number 10 official
68. Interview, Jonathan Powell
69. Interview, Cabinet minister
70. C. Blair, p. 337
71. Interview, Blair aide
72. C. Blair, p. 338
73. Interview, Tom Kelly
74. A. Campbell, p. 650; C. Blair, p. 338
75. Interview, Cabinet minister
76. Interview, Peter Mandelson
77. Interview, Sally Morgan
78. Interview, Blair aide
79. Interview, Blair aide
80. C. Blair, pp. 339–40
81. Interview, Alastair Campbell
82. C. Blair, p. 341
83. Ibid.; Campbell, p. 651
84. Interview, Sally Morgan
85. Interview, Blair inner circle
86. A. Campbell, p. 651
87. Cherie Blair, remarks at Atrium, Millbank, London, 10 December 2002
88. Interviews, Alastair Campbell and Sally Morgan
89. Cherie Blair, remarks at Atrium, Millbank, London, 10 December 2002
90. Conversation, Blair aide
91. C. Blair, p. 345
92. A. Campbell, p. 652
93. Interviews, Blair aides and friends
8. Naked in the Middle of the Room
1. Interview, Barry Cox
2. Interviews, Jack Straw and Stephen Wall
3. Interview, David Manning
4. Interview, Alastair Campbell
5. Interview, Michael Jay
6. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
7. Blair–Chirac, news conference, Le Touquet, 5 February 2003
8. Interview, Stephen Wall
9. Interview, Stephen Wall
10. UNSCR 1441, 8 November 2002
11. Interviews, David Manning and Sally Morgan
12. Interview, Christopher Meyer
13. Interview, Michael Boyce
14. Interviews, Barry Cox, David Manning and Jonathan Powell
15. Interview, David Manning
16. Interviews, Christopher Meyer and Condoleezza Rice
17. Interview, David Manning
18. Interview, Foreign Office official
19. Interview, Geoff Hoon
20. Interview, Jonathan Powell
21. Interview, David Manning
22. Interview, Sally Morgan
23. Woodward (2004), p. 240
24. Interview, Christopher Meyer
25. Today, BBC Radio 4, 1 January 2003
26. Interview, Michael Jay
27. Interview, Foreign Office official
28. Woodward (2006), p. 106
29. Interview, Christopher Meyer
30. Riddell (2003), p. 234
31. George W. Bush, State of the Union address, 28 January 2003
32. Interview, Christopher Meyer
33. Hansard, 20 January 2003
34. 43 per cent against, 30 per cent in favour, ICM for the Guardian, 21 January 2003
35. Interview, Sally Morgan
36. Interview, Barry Cox
37. Interview, Sally Morgan
38. A. Campbell, p. 660
39. Interview, David Manning
40. Interview, David Manning
41. Interview, David Manning; Manning’s record, 31 January 2003, first published in the New York Times, 27 March 2006. The timetable would slip by a fortnight when Turkey refused to allow land access into Iraq from its soil
42. Interview, David Manning
43. Interviews, David Manning and Condoleezza Rice; Manning’s record, 31 January 2003; Woodward (2006), pp. 296–7
44. Interview, Richard Haas
45. Interview, Michael Jay
46. Blair–Bush news conference, the White House, Washington, 31 January 2003
47. Interview, David Manning
48. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
49. Interview, Jack Straw
50. Colin Powell, address to UN, New York, 5 February 2003
51. Interview, Christopher Meyer
52. Colin Powell, address to UN, New York, 5 February 2003
53. Interview, Ed Owen
54. Conversation, Cabinet minister
55. Riddell (2003), p. 242
56. A. Campbell, p. 664
57. Interview, Jack Straw
58. Interview, Ed Owen
59. Interview, Nick Ryden
60. Interview, Sally Morgan
61. Conversation, Privy Counsellor
62. Interview, Clare Short
63. Interview, Sally Morgan
64. Interviews, Alastair Campbell and Sally Morgan
65. Interview, Sally Morgan; A. Campbell, p. 667
66. Interviews, David Manning and Sally Morgan
67. Interview, Stan Greenberg
68. Interview, Peter Hyman
69. Interview, Alan Milburn
70. Tony Blair, speech to Labour spring conference, Glasgow, 15 February 2003
71. Interview, Peter Mandelson
72. Interview, David Manning
73. Interview, Tessa Jowell
74. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials
75. Michael Gove, ‘I can’t fight my feelings anymore: I love Tony’, The Times, 25 February 2003
76. Conversation, Blair inner circle
77. ITV, 11 March 2003
78. Interviews, Sally Morgan and Tom Kelly; Kampfner, p. 286
79. Interview, Sally Morgan
80. Interview with Trevor Kavanagh, Sun, 18 April 2003
81. Newsnight, BBC2, 6 February 2003
82. Interview, Ed Owen
83. Interview, David Manning
84. Interviews, Sally Morgan and Jonathan Powell
85. Interview, Andrew Card
86. Interview, David Manning
87. Interview, Paddy Ashdown
88. Servants of the People, Chapter 14
89. Interview, Sally Morgan
90. Conversation, Cabinet minister
91. Conversation, Cabinet minister
92. Donald Rumsfeld, news conference, Pentagon, 22 January 2003
93. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
94. Interview, David Manning
95. Interview, Sally Morgan
96. Interview, David Manning
97. Interview, Jonathan Powell
98. Interview, David Manning
99. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
100. Chirac–Putin–Schröder Joint Statement, 5 March 2003
101. Interview, Christopher Meyer
102. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
103. Bryan Burrough et al., ‘Path to War’, Vanity Fair, May 2004. In fact, the UN building is not on the Hudson River, but on the East River
104. Interview, Ed Owen
105. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
106. Interview, Jonathan Powell
107. Interview, Sally Morgan
108. Interviews, Sally Morgan and Jack Straw
109. A. Campbell, pp. 671–2
110. Interview, Sally Morgan
111. Interview, Jack Straw
112. Conversation, Bill Clinton
9. With You to the End
1. Interviews, Andrew Card and Condoleezza Rice
2. Interview, Jack Straw
3. Interview, David Manning
4. Interview, Andrew Card
5. Interview, Condoleezza Rice
6. Interviews, Andrew Card and Condoleezza Rice
7. Interviews, Andrew Card and Condoleezza Rice
8. Interview, Tony Blair
9. Interviews, senior intelligence officers
10. Rogers, p. 302
11. Interview, Jack Straw
12. Interview, David Manning
13. Interview, Jack Straw
14. Interview, Michael Boyce
15. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
16. Interview, senior civil servant
17. Interview, Sally Morgan
18. Interview, Jer
emy Greenstock
19. Interview, Mike Jackson
20. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
21. Interview, Sally Morgan
22. Interview, Stephen Wall
23. Interview, Alastair Campbell
24. Interview, Jonathan Powell
25. Interview, Sally Morgan
26. Interview, Jack Straw
27. Interview, Jack Straw
28. Conversation, Robin Cook
29. Servants of the People, Chapter 14
30. The Westminster Hour, BBC Radio 4, 9 March 2003
31. Interview, Clare Short
32. Interview, Clare Short
33. ‘Rebel MPs should take Short’s lead’, Daily Mirror, 10 March 2003
34. Philip Webster, ‘Clare Short ready to resign over Iraq war’, The Times, 10 March 2003
35. Patrick Wintour, ‘Short spearheads rebellion with threat to quit’, Guardian, 10 March 2003
36. Conversations, Cabinet ministers
37. Interviews, Geoff Hoon and Jack Straw
38. Donald Rumsfeld, news conference, Pentagon, 11 March 2003
39. Interview, David Manning
40. Interviews, Michael Boyce and senior British officers
41. A. Campbell, p. 676
42. Interviews, David Manning, Sally Morgan and Jonathan Powell
43. TF1 reported by the Guardian, 11 March 2003
44. Stothard, p. 14
45. Mullin, p. 378
46. Interview, Stephen Wall
47. Cabinet Office response to Fol request by Lord Avebury, 18 July 2007
48. Sun, 12 March 2003
49. Conversation, European diplomat
50. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials; Blunkett (2006), p. 460
51. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials; Cook, pp. 320–21
52. Conversations, Cabinet ministers
53. Interview, Sally Morgan
54. Interview, Clare Short
55. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and Brown inner circle
56. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
57. Interviews, Hilary Armstrong, Sally Morgan and others; Stothard, p. 53
58. Conversations, Blair aides
59. Interviews, Brown inner circle
60. Interviews, Blair aides and Brown inner circle
61. Interview, Peter Stothard
62. Interview, Peter Stothard
63. Interview, Brown inner circle
64. Interview, Clare Short
65. Interview, Brown aide
66. Interview, Clare Short
67. Interview, Sally Morgan
68. See Sands for the best unpacking of this issue
69. The full document can now be read in, among other places, Sands, pp. 328–42
70. Interview, member of War Cabinet
71. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
72. Interview, Michael Boyce
73. Interview, Mike Jackson
74. Interview, Michael Jay
75. Interview, Mike Jackson
76. Interview, Michael Boyce
77. Lord Bingham, Grotius Lecture, Lincoln’s Inn, London, 17 November 2008
78. Channel 4 News, 27 April 2005
79. Observer, 24 April 2005
80. Interview, Charlie Falconer
81. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
82. Conversation, Robin Cook
83. A. Campbell, p. 680; Cook, p. 325
84. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials; A. Campbell, p. 680
85. Cited in Report of the Butler Inquiry, HC 898, 14 July 2004
86. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials
87. Interview, Alan Milburn
88. Interview, Sally Morgan
89. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
90. Short, p. 186
91. Interview, Clare Short
92. Interview, Ed Owen
93. Interview, Sally Morgan
94. Conversation, Cabinet minister
95. Interview, senior civil servant
96. Blunkett (2006), p. 463
97. Guardian, 26 April 2003
98. A. Campbell, p. 678
99. In February 2009, Jack Straw used veto powers to overrule a decision by the Information Commissioner that the minutes of this Cabinet meeting should be released. The bland minutes would not have actually revealed much except that there was embarrassingly little debate at this meeting
100. Philip Hunt, a member of the Lords, and the Home Office Minister John Denham
101. Interview, Jack Straw
102. Interview, Cabinet minister
103. Woodward (2004), p. 365
104. George W. Bush, address from the Oval Office, Washington, 17 March 2003
105. Interview, Sally Morgan
106. Interview, Hilary Armstrong
107. Interview, Jack Straw
108. Interview with Trevor Kavanagh, Sun, 18 April 2003
109. Interview, John Burton
110. Interview, Barry Cox
111. Interview, David Manning
112. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
113. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
114. Interview, Sally Morgan
115. Interview, Hilary Armstrong
116. Interview, Geoffrey Robinson
117. Interview, Frank Dobson
118. Interview, Robert Harris
119. Interview, Ed Owen
120. Hansard, 17 March 2003
121. Interview, Clare Short; she finally quit on Monday, 12 May 2003
122. Hansard, 18 March 2003
123. Cherie Blair, remarks at Cheltenham Literary Festival, 10 October 2009
124. Interview, Peter Hyman
125. Interview, Paddy Ashdown
126. Interview, David Blunkett
127. Interview, Stan Greenberg
128. Guardian Unlimited, 1 April 2003
129. Daily Mail, 19 March 2003
130. Daily Mirror, 19 March 2003
131. Independent, 19 March 2003
132. Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2003
133. Sun, 19 March 2003
134. Hansard, 18 March 2003
135. Interview, Sally Morgan
136. Mullin, p. 388
137. Interview, Hilary Armstrong
138. Interview, Sally Morgan
139. Interview, Andrew Card
140. Interview, Michael Boyce
10. Squandered Victory
1. Interviews, David Manning and Condoleezza Rice
2. Woodward (2004), p. 399
3. Interviews, Peter Hyman, Sally Morgan, Peter Stothard and others; Stothard, pp. 106–7
4. Tony Blair, televised address from Downing Street, 20 March 2003
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