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The Other Other Conservatives - Kelly & the Tories

The Tories, Britain's conservative party, are intrenched in an attempt to regain power over the handling of the Iraq Crisis and David Kelly

Source: TheTip, 2003-07-24

Candidate: David Kelly

In a bizarre turn, the usually hawkish Tories are looking for blood on English soil. They've appointed Lord Hutton to investigate the death of David Kelly, English scientist who blew the whistle on Blair's "sexing up" of the evidence for war in Iraq.

This stands in stark contrast to the American dichotomy where the Conservatives are taking the heat for the war. The dichotomy is false - that the conservatives and liberals are really just two sides of the same coin.

The Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, today demanded that the judicial inquiry into David Kelly's death also examine the government's controversial September dossier on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

In an interview this morning, the Tory chief declared: " You cannot separate the death of Dr Kelly from what happened in September in the run-up to the first dossier."

His specific call to Lord Hutton to examine the drafting, construction and approval of that dossier - which contained the central 45-minute claim - raises the stakes in the blame game over Dr Kelly's death, putting the onus back on the government to prove beyond doubt that the intelligence services were happy with the document.

Yesterday Lord Hutton declared he would set the terms of his own inquiry, although the government has already set the parameters as concerning "the circurmstances surrounding Dr Kelly's death".

The Conservatives, led by shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin, and backed by the Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, have been calling for a full judicial inquiry into the build-up to war with Iraq.

Mr Duncan Smith said today the Hutton inquiry needed to have the "widest possible terms". "I think what the tragedy of the death of Dr Kelly has told us is that, in part, the political process is slightly in the dock here," he told GMTV.

"Clearly the government is, and the BBC have some explaining to do, and so that is why we believe absolutely that we need the widest possible terms of inquiry for Lord Hutton.

"We think the government wants it to narrow it. It should not do. You cannot separate the death of Dr Kelly from what happened in September in the run-up to the first dossier."

Mr Duncan Smith said he believed it was right to have liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein. But he added that a wide inquiry was "absolutely vital" to restore confidence in the government.
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