SIR JOHN SCARLETT EVIDENCE ON ‘DODGY DOSSIER’ ADDS TO CASE AGAINST LABOUR.

SIR JOHN SCARLETT EVIDENCE ON ‘DODGY DOSSIER’ ADDS TO CASE AGAINST LABOUR.

SNP Westminster Leader and Defence Spokesperson Angus Robertson MP has today (Tuesday) repeated his call for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to appear before the Chilcot Inquiry.

His remarks came as the Chilcot Inquiry heard evidence from Sir John Scarlett who was chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee at the time of the invasion and went on to become chief of MI6 - despite controversy over his role in drawing up the notorious dossier on Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction.

Sir John has acknowledged Tony Blair's spin doctor Alastair Campbell gave advice on the document's presentation. He confirmed to the Inquiry that Ministers had been alerted to the doubt over the functionality of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction days before the invasion.

His appearance before the Inquiry came as a Conservative MP alleged that the 45-minute claim came from "a cab driver on the Iraqi-Jordanian border".

Commenting, Mr Robertson said:

“The contents and construction of Tony Blair’s dodgy dossier are well known, and now Sir John Scarlett’s evidence to the Chilcot inquiry adds to the damning dossier building up against those who took us to war.

“With each evidence session, the men who took us into the worst foreign policy disaster in modern times – Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – are implicated more and more.

“Instead of hearing from aides and advisors, it’s time we heard from the men who sexed up the evidence and took us to war on a lie.

“This inquiry will be judged on the answers that it provides and the public deserve to hear the real story about a war fought in their name from the men who took us there.”