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Blair: No independent inquiry into the UK's decision to go to war in Iraq

Stephen Sackur talks to former British Diplomat Carne Ross.

So far Tony Blair has resisted pressure for a far reaching independent inquiry into the Iraq War.

The British Government has also been trying to stop the publication of several insiders' accounts related to the invasion and its aftermath.

Stephen Sackur talks to Carne Ross, a former British diplomat who was based at the UN in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.

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