Tony Blair excluded MoD head from Iraq invasion talks, biography claims

Senior figures in defence ministry were cut out of discussions in the run-up to the war, according to new book Broken Vows: Tony Blair – The Tragedy of Power

Senior figures in the British ministry of defence were largely cut out of discussions in the run-up to the invasion in Iraq by then prime minister Tony Blair, according to a new biography by Tom Bower published on Thursday.

The scenario – that the department responsible for sending British troops into action would not be directly involved in such discussions at the top – is laid out by the top civil servant in the MoD at the time, Sir Kevin Tebbit.

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