Unsurprisingly Claire Short, during her appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war, pulled no punches when it came to trying to put the boot into Tony Blair.
She said that Blair "and his mates" decided war was necessary, and "everything was done on a wing and a prayer".
That seems to be a pretty fair assessment.
She didn't have many kind words for the former Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, either:
"I think he misled the cabinet. He certainly misled me, but people let it through."
Her "principled" stand is somewhat let down by the fact that she stayed in the cabinet after the war had started, relying on the promise by Blair that she would have a major role in the reconstruction of Iraq.
As we know, the reconstruction has been a bodged job (to put it mildly). However, even if it had been a beacon of success, it seems a strange stance to take to happily stand by whilst a country is being bombed to smithereens merely on the promise of being allowed to rebuild it again.
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