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25 March 2005, 11:43

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March 24, 2005

No government minister has been available to explain the apparent change in the legal advice given by Lord Goldsmith in March 2003 regarding war with Iraq. Not only was the resignation letter from Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office, censored but the government continues to refuse to release Lord Goldsmith’s full legal advice.

This situation should not go on. On the ’Today’ programme this morning former defence minister Lord Gilbert blustered that the public have no right to see the advice. ’It must be taken on trust’ he said. This government has lost that trust.

Reg Keys, father of Lcp Tom Keys Royal Military Police, killed in Iraq in June 2003 said today:

’As I waved my son Tom off to war I believed the credibility of this government and the fact that this was a legal war. I now feel a man betrayed by his own government and their legal advisers. My son now rests in his grave , his oath of allegiance betrayed. There has to be accountability for this disgraceful conduct by the Prime Minister and his associates. That is why I am going to stand in Sedgefield because Tony Blair has to be made to account for this war. The families have every right to see the full legal advice.’

Rose Gentle, mother of fusilier Gordon Gentle, killed in Iraq June 2004, said :
’Tony Blair should be impeached for the lies he has told, he must be brought to court. We know there were no weapons of mass destruction, now we know there was no legal justification for the war either’.

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[Adobe Acrobat PDF: http://www.mfaw.org.uk/press-release-24-03-05.pdf ]

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