War legal advice to stay secret (Blair)

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War legal advice to stay secret

Rob Evans and Clare Dyer
Wednesday June 9, 2004
The Guardian

Tony Blair has been granted permission to keep secret the full legal advice he received about the invasion of Iraq, it emerged yesterday.

Ann Abraham, the parliamentary ombudsman, has ruled that the prime minister was justified in withholding the controversial legal advice which he received from Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general.

She had been investigating a complaint under the "open government" code that copies of the full advice should be published.

Many MPs and public figures have been calling on Mr Blair to make public all the advice, as there has been continual speculation that Lord Goldsmith offered only tentative support for the invasion.

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