It was all going so well down at the Chilcot enquiry. The suave former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith seemed to have no difficulty in swatting away his questioning by Sir Roderic Lyne. They may have been launched like exocets, but they arrived like flies.
Rather like former Home Secretary Michael Howard’s famously endless ability to twist and spin so that Jeremy Paxman’s questions failed again and again to elicit a straight answer, Lord Goldsmith answered a question with a question, posed philosophical conundrums and generally cast doubt about the very purpose of the entire enquiry.
Then he made one fatal mistake. Asked if he felt under pressure over the possibility of not going ahead with the Iraq conflict he overstated his case. “Not at all” he said. Collapse of credibility – nothing is ever that simple.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Looks like Blair is also getting an easy time of it today. The whole process stinks!