Lord Butler comes clean
Whatever Tony Blair promised Lord Butler to exonerate him on the WMD lies obviously fell short as Butler finally delivered the truth we all knew: that the Iraq Dossier was fudged because it didn't support the government's case for war.
He also delivered a blistering attack Blair's "inner circle" executive style of government:
"I think we are a country where we suffer very badly from Parliament not having sufficient control over the executive, and that is a very grave flaw.
We should be breaking away from the party whip. The executive is much too free to bring in a huge number of extremely bad Bills, a huge amount of regulation and to do whatever it likes – and whatever it likes is what will get the best headlines tomorrow.
All that is part of what is bad government in this country.”