102. Melissa Kite, The Times, 21 July 2003
103. C. Blair, p. 358
104. Ibid., pp. 358–9
105. Ibid., p. 359
106. Interview, Philip Gould
107. Interview, Barry Cox
108. Hugo Young, Guardian, 8 July 2003 and 19 July 2003
109. Conversation, Hugo Young
110. Boulton, pp. 127–8
111. Kevin Tebbit, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 13 October 2003
112. C. Blair, p. 359
113. Conversations, American and French reporters
114. Alastair Campbell, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 19 August 2003
115. Interview, Steve Morris
116. Interview, David Hill
117. Simon Jenkins, The Times, 26 September 2003
118. Interview, BBC executive
119. Interview, senior civil servant
120. Conversations, Blair aides
121. Interview, Number 10 official
122. Tony Blair, statement about Campbell’s resignation, Number 10, 29 August 2003
123. Interview, Tom Kelly
124. See Chapter 7
125. Interview, Barry Cox
126. Conversations, Blair aides
13. Dinner for Three
1. Interview, Sunder Katwala
2. Conversation, Blair aide
3. Conversations, Brown aides
4. Interview, Tony Blair
5. MORI for the Financial Times, 27 September 2003
6. Observer, 28 September 2003
7. Interview, Tony Blair
8. Interview, David Hill
9. Interview, Brown inner circle
10. Daily Mirror, 30 September 2003
11. Gordon Brown, speech to Labour conference, Bournemouth, 29 September 2003
12. Interview, Brown aide
13. Interview, Brown aide
14. Conversation, Cabinet minister
15. Interview, Sally Morgan
16. Interview, David Hill
17. Interview, Peter Hyman
18. Interview, Peter Hyman
19. Interview, Sally Morgan
20. Tony Blair, speech to Labour conference, Bournemouth, 30 September 2003
21. Conversation, Cabinet minister
22. Conversation, Brown aide
23. Conversation, Blair aide
24. Conversation, Blair inner circle
25. Interview, Sally Morgan
26. Interview, Brown aide
27. GMTV, 6 November 2003
28. Prescott, p. 302
29. Conversation, Cabinet minister
30. Conversation, Cabinet minister
31. Interview, Brown inner circle
32. Interviews, Brown inner circle
33. Interviews, Sally Morgan and others
34. Conversation, Cabinet minister
35. Prescott, p. 308
36. Ibid., p. 310
37. Gordon Brown, speech to the Social Market Foundation, Cass Business School, London, 3 February 2003
38. Interview, Robert Hill
39. Conversation, Cabinet minister
40. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
41. Though in that case he got his facts wrong
42. Interview, Charles Clarke
43. Interview, Sally Morgan
44. Interview, Robert Hill
45. Interview, Tony Blair
46. Interview, senior Treasury official
47. Interview, Estelle Morris
48. Interview, Robert Hill
49. Interview, Charles Clarke
50. Andrew Rawnsley, ‘The Chancellor isn’t scary any more’, Observer, 9 February 2003
51. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
52. Interview, Charles Clarke
53. Interview, Hilary Armstrong
54. ‘Ambitions for Britain’, Labour manifesto, 16 May 2001
55. Interview, Hilary Armstrong
56. Interview, Sally Morgan
57. Interview, Alan Johnson
58. Interview, David Hill
59. Interview, Stephen Wall
60. Interview, Number 10 official
61. Interview, Brown aide
62. Interview, Brown inner circle
63. Interview, Sally Morgan
64. Interviews, Blair inner circle and Brown inner circle
65. Interview, George Mudie
66. The Times, 29 January 2004
67. Interview, Stephen Wall
68. Interview, David Hill
69. Interview, Geoff Mulgan
70. Interview, Hilary Armstrong
71. Interview, David Hill
72. Blunkett (2006), p. 583
73. Interview, Geoff Mulgan
14. Too Good to be True
1. Interview, David Hill
2. Interviews, Tom Kelly, Sally Morgan, Jonathan Powell and others
3. Interview, David Hill
4. Interview, David Hill
5. Interview, Tom Kelly
6. Interview, David Hill
7. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
8. The source of the leak has never been identified. Campbell denied it was him and Downing Street that it was them
9. Report of the Hutton Inquiry, HC 247, p. 320
10. Interview, David Hill
11. Hansard, 7 January 2004 and 14 January 2004
12. Ibid., 28 January 2004
13. Interview, Stephen Byers
14. Max Hastings, Daily Mail, 29 January 2004
15. Matthew d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph, 12 December 2004
16. Interview, Tom Kelly
17. Interview, David Hill
18. Alastair Campbell, news conference, FPA, London, 28 January 2004
19. Conversation, Cabinet minister
20. Conversation, Cabinet minister
21. 55 per cent said it was a whitewash; 54 per cent said Number 10 had ‘sexed up’ the dossier: YouGov for ITV, 1 February 2004
22. Three times as many voters trusted the BBC as trusted the Government; 45 per cent of voters still believed Blair had lied about Kelly’s outing, down just three from 48 per cent in a pre-verdict poll: ICM for the Guardian, 30 January 2004
23. Interview, David Hill
24. David Kay, evidence to Senate Armed Services committee, 29 January 2004
25. Interview, Jack Straw
26. Interview, Jack Straw
27. Interview, Mike Jackson
28. Interview, David Manning
29. Interview, David Manning
30. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
31. Interview, David Manning
32. Bremer barely mentions Greenstock in his account of his time in Iraq. Of just four references, two are unfriendly. Greenstock was prevented from publishing his own account by a Foreign Office gag
33. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
34. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
35. Interview, Sally Morgan
36. Interviews, Andrew Card and David Hill
37. Interview, Christopher Meyer
38. Interviews, Andrew Card and Condoleezza Rice
39. Interview, David Manning
40. Interview, Sally Morgan
41. Interview, Jonathan Powell
42. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
43. Observer, 16 November 2003
44. Interviews, Tessa Jowell and Sally Morgan
45. George W. Bush, speech at Banqueting House, London, 19 November 2003
46. Interview, Sally Morgan
47. Interview, David Hill
48. Interview, Sally Morgan
49. George W. Bush, speech at Banqueting House, London, 19 November 2003
50. Blair–Bush news conference, Number 10, 20 November 2003
51. Guardian, 21 November 2003
52. Time, 1 December 2003
53. Interview, David Hill
54. Interview, Stephen Wall
55. Conversation, minister
56. Interview, Charlie Falconer
57. Interview, Cabine
t minister
58. Blair–Bush news conference, Number 10, 20 November 2003
59. Interview, Michael Jay
60. Interview, Cabinet minister
61. Interview, Menzies Campbell
62. Interview, David Hill
63. Interview, David Hill
64. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 20 November 2003
65. Interview, Jonathan Powell
66. USA Today, 14 December 2002
67. Tony Blair, remarks about capture of Saddam, Number 10, London, 14 December 2003
68. Interview, David Hill
69. George W. Bush, television address, Washington, 14 December 2003
70. Rory McCarthy and Julian Borger, Guardian, 18 December 2003 and 20 December 2003
71. Tony Blair, speech to troops in Basra, 4 January 2004
72. See Chapter 10
73. Bremer, pp. 267–70
74. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
75. Mullin, p. 455
76. Tony Blair, speech in Sedgefield, 5 March 2004
77. Tony Blair, speech to Labour spring conference, Manchester, 13 March 2004
78. Conversation, Blair aide
79. Tony Blair, remarks in Downing Street, 12 March 2004
80. Stephen Glover, Daily Mail, 16 March 2004
81. YouGov for Sky News, 16 March 2004
82. Giles Tremlett, Guardian Weekly, 18 March 2004
83. His release from jail in August 2009 is discussed in Chapter 38
84. Nicholas Watt, Guardian, 26 March 2004
85. Interviews, Government officials; conversation, Cabinet minister
86. Nicholas Watt, Guardian, 27 March 2004
87. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
88. Interview, Richard Haas
89. McCarthy, p. 152
90. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
91. Observer, 11 April 2004
92. These discussions were so sensitive that officials were later jailed for leaking the minutes
93. Interviews, senior officers
94. Blair–Bush news conference, White House, Washington, 16 April 2004
95. Conversation, Cabinet minister
96. Conversations, Cabinet ministers
97. Guardian, 27 April 2004
98. Interview, Sally Morgan
99. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
15. The Long Dark Tunnel
1. Conversation, Cabinet minister
2. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
3. Interview, Cabinet minister
4. Conversation, minister
5. Interviews, Cabinet minister and Blair aides
6. Interview, Cabinet minister
7. The Westminster Hour, BBC Radio 4, 19 October 2003
8. Interview, Blair aide
9. Interview, Sally Morgan
10. Interview, Charlie Falconer
11. Interview, Blair aide
12. Interview, Blair inner circle
13. The Westminster Hour, BBC Radio 4, 6 June 2004
14. Conversation, former Cabinet minister
15. Conversation, Cabinet minister
16. Conversation, Blair aide
17. C. Blair, pp. 368, 370
18. Interview, Steve Morris
19. Sun, 10 September 2003
20. Interview, Steve Morris
21. Mullin, pp. 461, 464
22. Interview, Frank Dobson
23. Conversations, Cabinet ministers
24. Conversation, Cabinet minister
25. Sun, 15 April 2004; The Times, 16 April 2004
26. Conversations, European diplomats
27. Hansard, 20 April 2004
28. Conversation, former Cabinet minister
29. Interview, Stephen Byers
30. Sunday Times, 25 April 2004
31. Sixty Minutes, CBS, 29 April 2004
32. Guardian, 1 May 2004
33. Daily Telegraph, 1 May 2004
34. Report on the Treatment of Fourteen ‘High Value Detainees’ in CIA Custody, International Committee of the Red Cross, February 2007
35. Report of the Senate Armed Services Committee, 22 April 2009
36. Ibid.; timeline released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, 23 April 2009; Bush administration top secret memos declassified and released by White House, 16 April 2009
37. Testimony to Joint House and Senate Intelligence Committee, September 2002
38. CNN, 4 February 2009, cited in The New York Review of Books, 18 April 2009
39. Hansard, 26 February 2009
40. Interview, Cabinet minister
41. The Times, 6 February 2009
42. Interview, Michael Jay
43. Interview, Mike Jackson
44. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
45. Interview, Barry Cox
46. Conversation, Blair aide
47. Conversation, Cabinet minister
48. Interview, Peter Mandelson
49. Interview, Philip Gould
50. Interview, Tessa Jowell
51. Interview, Stephen Byers
52. Interview, David Blunkett
53. Interview, Peter Hain
54. Interview, Alan Milburn
55. Interview, Cabinet minister
56. C. Blair, p. 369
57. Interview, David Hill
58. Interview, Sally Morgan
59. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
60. Interview, Brown inner circle
61. Interview, Stan Greenberg
62. Interview, Philip Gould
63. YouGov for Sky News, 16 March 2004
64. YouGov for the Sunday Times, 16 May 2004
65. Conversation, Cabinet minister
66. Conversation, Cabinet minister
67. Interview, Philip Gould
68. Interview, Brown aide
69. Tom Baldwin, The Times, 15 May 2004
70. Conversation, Cabinet minister
71. Interviews, Blair and Brown inner circles; Peston, pp. 337–8
72. Interviews, Brown inner circle
73. Interview, Brown aide
74. Interviews, Brown inner circle
75. Interviews, Brown inner circle
76. Interview, Tessa Jowell
77. Interview, Philip Gould
78. Interview, Jonathan Powell
79. Conversation, Cabinet minister
80. Interview, Peter Mandelson
81. Interview, Tom Kelly
82. Interviews, Michael Levy and Jonathan Powell
83. Interview, Michael Levy
84. Interview, Charlie Falconer
85. Interview, David Blunkett
86. C. Blair, p. 370
87. Interview, Michael Levy
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