As he appeared before the Chilcot inquiry, an unrepentant Alastair Campbell yesterday insisted that the then Prime Minister pursued disarmament by diplomacy up until the last minute before the 2003 invasion.
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Campbell caught out by Blair’s promise to Bush
Tony Blair wrote to George Bush in private in the year before the Iraq invasion, saying that Britain would back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein if diplomatic efforts failed.
