Brown

Brown: Iraq invasion was right

For Gordon Brown there was no need to sneak in like Tony Blair.  His car arrived at the front door and he walked past the occasional shout and the odd jeer not looking back.  The police were there in numbers, the barriers in place, but there were only a handful of protesters to greet his arrival at Britain’s official Iraq Inquiry.

Throughout the build-up to the war, one of the biggest mysteries was the position of Finance Minister Gordon Brown.  One of the most powerful figures in the Labour Government, the presumptive successor to Tony Blair, he made no public comment on the build up.

Within seconds of sitting down in front of the panel that makes up the Chilcott Inquiry his position was clear.