5. Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2003
6. Interview, Barry Cox
7. Interview, Nick Ryden
8. Interview, Colin Niven
9. Stothard, p. 91
10. Interview, Charles Guthrie
11. Servants of the People, Chapter 14
12. Interview, Tony Blair
13. Interview, Tony Blair
14. Trevor Kavanagh, Sun, 18 April 2003
15. A. Campbell, p. 683
16. Interview, Michael Boyce
17. Interviews, members of War Cabinet
18. Woodward (2006), p. 154
19. Interview, Michael Boyce
20. Interview, Geoff Hoon
21. Interview, David Manning
22. Interview, senior officer
23. Interview, Michael Boyce
24. Interview, member of the War Cabinet
25. Conversation, Cabinet minister
26. Interviews, Geoff Hoon and Michael Boyce
27. Interview, Michael Boyce
28. Interviews, Geoff Hoon and others
29. Interview, Michael Boyce
30. Interview, Geoff Hoon
31. Interview, Tom Kelly
32. Interview, Andrew Card
33. Interview, David Manning
34. Blair–Bush news conference, Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, 8 April 2003
35. Interview, Tom Kelly
36. Interview, Michael Levy
37. Interview, Mike Jackson
38. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
39. Interview, David Manning
40. Conversations, senior Blair and Brown aides
41. Interview, Charles Guthrie
42. Interview, Michael Boyce
43. Interview, David Manning
44. Interview, Andrew Card
45. Interview, Michael Boyce
46. Hansard, 14 April 2003
47. The museum would not reopen until six years later
48. Interview, David Manning
49. Interview, Richard Haas
50. Interview, Mike Jackson
51. Interview, Jack Straw
52. Interview, David Manning
53. Interview, Ed Owen
54. Donald Rumsfeld, news conference, Washington, 11 April 2003
55. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
56. Interview, senior British officer
57. Interview, Jack Straw
58. Interview, Clare Short
59. Woodward (2006), pp. 108, 113
60. Interview, Clare Short
61. Interview, senior British officer
62. Interview, Jack Straw
63. George W. Bush, speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Persian Gulf, 1 May 2003
64. Confidential cable, Sawers to 10 Downing Street, 11 May 2003; Gordon and Trainor (2007), pp. 541–2
65. Synnott, pp. 46, 85
66. Woodward (2006), p. 194
67. Interviews, Michael Boyce and Mike Jackson
68. Interview, Mike Jackson
69. Interview, David Manning
70. Interview, Condoleezza Rice
71. Interview, David Manning
72. Interview, Condoleezza Rice
73. A. Campbell, p. 699
74. Interview, Ed Owen
75. Interview, Mike Jackson
76. Interview, Peter Mandelson
77. Interview, Peter Mandelson
78. Interview, Michael Levy
79. Interview, David Manning
80. Interview, Christopher Meyer
81. Interview, Neil Kinnock
82. Interviews, civil servants
83. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
84. Interview, Alan Milburn
85. Interview, Sally Morgan
86. Interview, David Blunkett
87. Interview, Michael Jay
88. Interview, Christopher Meyer
89. Interviews, senior British officers
90. Interview, David Manning
91. Interview, Andrew Card
92. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
93. Synnott, pp. 5, 13
94. Ibid., p. 252
95. UNSCR 1483, 22 May 2003
96. Observer, 30 March 2003
97. Interview, David Manning; A. Campbell, pp. 694–5
98. Blair–Putin news conference, Moscow, 29 April 2003
99. Interview, David Manning
100. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
11. Broken Dream, Cabinet Nightmare
1. Interview, member of War Cabinet
2. Conversation, Blair aide
3. Interview, Steve Morris
4. Interview, Stephen Wall
5. Interview, Peter Mandelson
6. Tony Blair, speech to Labour conference, Brighton, 2 October 2001
7. Interview, Peter Hyman
8. Interview, Steve Morris
9. Interview, Tony Blair
10. Interview, Stan Greenberg
11. Interview, Geoff Mulgan
12. Interview, Peter Mandelson
13. Conversations, European diplomats
14. Conversations, minister and Blair aides
15. Tony Blair, speech to Labour conference, Blackpool, 1 October 2002
16. Tony Blair, speech, Cardiff, 28 November 2002
17. Hansard, 27 November 2002
18. Interview, Paddy Ashdown
19. Interview, Tony Blair
20. Interview, Stephen Wall
21. Conversations, members of Britain in Europe
22. Conversations, Blair aides and Cabinet ministers
23. Interview, Brown inner circle
24. Conversation, Brown inner circle
25. Conversation, Cabinet minister
26. Servants of the People, Chapter 5
27. Interview, Steve Morris
28. Interview, Stephen Wall
29. For the best accounts, predominantly from the Treasury’s perspective, see Keegan, pp. 320–28, and Peston, pp. 217–46
30. Interview, senior civil servant
31. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
32. Interview, Stephen Wall
33. Conversation, Blair aide
34. Conversation, Blair adviser
35. Conversation, Cabinet minister
36. Interviews, civil servants
37. Ed Balls, Cairncross Lecture, 4 December 2002
38. Conversations, Brown inner circle
39. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
40. Interview, Jonathan Powell
41. Interview, Stephen Wall
42. Interview, Jonathan Powell
43. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
44. Interviews, Brown inner circle, Jonathan Powell, Stephen Wall and others
45. Interviews, Brown inner circle, Andrew Turnbull, Stephen Wall and others
46. Interviews, Jonathan Powell, Andrew Turnbull, Stephen Wall, Number 10 and Treasury officials, Blair and Brown aides; Peston, p. 238. Witnesses from both sides of the Blair–Brown divide agree that this is what happened
47. Interview, Brown aide
48. Interview, Stephen Wall
49. Interview, Jonathan Powell
50. Interview, Charles Clarke
51. Interview, Alan Milburn
52. Interview, Charles Clarke
53. Interview, Jonathan Powell
54. Oonagh Blackman, Daily Mirror, 22 May 2003; Andrew Grice, Independent, 22 May 2003
55. Andrew Rawnsley, ‘Peter Mandelson’s cardinal sin’, Observer, 25 May 2003
56. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
57. Interview, Stephen Wall
58. Interviews, Jonathan Powell and Stephen Wall
59. Conversation, Cabinet minister
60. Interview, Stephen Wall
61. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
62. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
63. Interview, Sally Morgan
64. Conversation, Cabinet minister
65. Interview, Neil Kinnock
66. Interview, Jack Straw
68. Interview, Richard Wilson
69. Interview, Geoff Hoon
70. The reshuffle of 2006
71. Conversation, Cabinet minister
72. Interview, Charles Clarke
73. Interview, Michael Levy
74. Interview, Cabinet minister
75. Interview, Sally Morgan
76. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
77. Conversation, Blair aide
78. Interviews, Andrew Turnbull and others
79. Paper from Irvine to House of Lords select committee on the Constitution, 26 October 2009
80. Interview, Sally Morgan
81. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
82. Interviews, Blair inner circle
83. Interview, Sally Morgan
84. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
85. Interview, Cabinet minister
86. Interview, Sally Morgan
87. Blunkett (2006), p. 512
88. Andrew Turnbull, evidence to House of Lords select committee on the Constitution, 1 July 2009
89. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
90. Congressional Citation, 25 June 2003
12. A Body in the Woods
1. Tony Blair, speech to troops, Basra, 29 May 2003
2. Nicholas Watt in Rogers, p. 42
3. Today, BBC Radio 4, 6.07 a.m., 29 May 2003
4. Interview, Tom Kelly
5. Tony Blair, news conference in Poland, 30 May 2003
6. Interview, Tom Kelly
7. Mail on Sunday, 1 June 2003
8. Tony Blair, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 28 August 2003
9. Tony Blair, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 28 August 2003
10. Interview, Jonathan Powell
11. Servants of the People, Chapter 14
12. Interview, Sally Morgan
13. A. Campbell, p. 606
14. Ibid., p. 602
15. Interview, Barry Cox
16. Interview, Alastair Campbell
17. Interview, Number 10 official
18. Interview, Sally Morgan
19. A. Campbell, p. 585
20. Ibid., p. 700
21. Interview, Number 10 official
22. Interview, Number 10 official
23. E-mail, Marsh to Mitchell, 9 June 2003, evidence to Hutton Inquiry
24. Today, BBC Radio 4, 29 May 2003
25. Interview, Sally Morgan
26. John Humphrys interview with Q magazine, 19 December 2008
27. Kamal Ahmed, Observer, 1 February 2004
28. The Times, 4 June 2003
29. Andrew Gilligan, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 12 August 2003
30. A. Campbell, p. 703
31. Interview, Sally Morgan
32. Alastair Campbell, evidence to Foreign Affairs select committee, 25 June 2003
33. Interview, Jonathan Powell
34. Interview, Jon Snow
35. Interview, Jon Snow
36. Channel 4 News, 27 June 2003
37. Interview, Jon Snow
38. Interview, Sally Morgan
39. A. Campbell, p. 711
40. Interview, Number 10 official
41. Interview, Barry Cox
42. Tony Blair, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 28 August 2003
43. Interview, Barry Cox
44. Tony Blair, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 28 August 2003
45. Interview, Geoff Hoon
46. A. Campbell, p. 713
47. Ibid., p. 714
48. Interview, Geoff Hoon
49. Jonathan Powell, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 18 August 2003
50. Scarlett’s Note headed ‘Meeting in Prime Minister’s Office’, 7 July 2003; Omand’s Memo headed ‘Meetings in the Prime Minister’s study’, 21 July 2003
51. Letter, Scarlett to Omand, 7 July 2003, evidence to Hutton Inquiry
52. Sunday Times, 1 February 2004
53. Hansard, 7 July 2003
54. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
55. Interview, Peter Mandelson
56. A. Campbell, p. 714
57. Godric Smith, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 20 August 2003
58. Interview, Tom Kelly
59. Kevin Tebbit, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 13 October 2003
60. Jonathan Powell, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 18 August 2003
61. David Manning, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 18 August 2003
62. Kevin Tebbit, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 13 October 2003
63. Jonathan Powell and Kevin Tebbit, evidence to Hutton Inquiry
64. Richard Norton-Taylor, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 21 August 2003
65. Michael Evans, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 21 August 2003
66. Financial Times, Guardian, The Times, 10 July 2003
67. E-mail, Kelly to Powell, 10 July 2003, evidence to Hutton Inquiry
68. Conversation, Cabinet minister
69. Letter, Tebbit to Hoon, 10 July 2003, evidence to Hutton Inquiry
70. Letter, Hoon’s Private Secretary to Straw’s Private Secretary, 11 July 2003, evidence to Hutton Inquiry
71. David Kelly, evidence to Foreign Affairs committee, 15 July 2003
72. Interview, Alastair Campbell; A. Campbell, p. 720
73. Alastair Campbell, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 22 September 2003
74. Interview, Tom Kelly
75. Interview, Sally Morgan
76. C. Blair, p. 356
77. Janice Kelly, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 1 September 2003
78. Ruth Absalom, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 2 September 2003
79. Interview, Tony Blair
80. Tony Blair, address to Joint Session of Congress, 17 July 2003
81. Conversations, Blair aides
82. Interview, Sally Morgan
83. Interview, Sally Morgan
84. Interviews, David Manning and others
85. C. Blair, p. 357
86. Interview, David Manning
87. Interview, Sally Morgan
88. Interview, Alastair Campbell; C. Blair, p. 357
89. Interview, Cabinet minister
90. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
91. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
92. Interview, Cabinet minister
93. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
94. C. Blair, p. 357
95. Interview, Michael Levy
96. Interview, Tom Kelly
97. Interview, Number 10 official
98. Interview, Geoff Hoon
99. BBC News, 20 July 2003
100. Jonathan Oliver, Mail on Sunday, 20 July 2003
101. Interview, Sally Morgan
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