Chilcot Report ― Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary

The key findings of the public inquiry into the handling of the 2003 Iraq war by the British government led by Tony Blair.Chaired by Sir John Chilcot, the Iraq Inquiry (known as there 'Chilcot Report') tackled:• Saddam Hussein's threat to Britain• the legal advice for the invasion• intelligence about weapons of mass destruction and• planning for a post-conflict Iraq.This 60,000-word executive summary was published in July 2016. Philippe Sands QC wrote in the London Review of Books:'It offers a long and painful account of an episode that may come to be seen as marking the moment when the UK fell off its global perch, trust in government collapsed and the country turned inward and began to disintegrate.'Published under an Open Government Licence, this book aims to make better known the findings of the Iraq Inquiry, which took seven years to complete at a cost of £10 million.The text, headings, footnotes and any emphasis are exactly those of the original document.