Following the release of diplomatic cables by Wikileaks, focus centred on a letter from Bill Rammell, the former Foreign Office minister, to his Libyan counterpart shortly after Megrahi was diagnosed with cancer in August 2008.
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Labour ‘misled public on Megrahi release’
Former Labour ministers were last night accused by the Conservatives of misleading the British public over the Lockerbie tragedy and told to “come clean” over their alleged – and denied – involvement in the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the man convicted of the bombing.
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