Jack Straw must have had a good chuckle when he came up with the argument that he had to keep Cabinet minutes over Iraq secret in the name of preserving collective cabinet responsibility when everything we do know about it indicates that Cabinet involvement was minimal. The sofa government set the policy and the Cabinet rubber stamped it. It’s precisely this that the government doesn’t want confirmed in excruciating detail.
Look folks, kudos to everyone who tries and everything but can we finally acknowledge that the public’s only going to get its hands on the relevant minutes, e-mails, tapes and so on when the revolutionary guard pry them from the cold, dead hands of the undersecretaries and nail them to the door of No 10: which is to say, not at all.
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