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Sir John Chilcot’s full statement introducing the Iraq War inquiry report

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We were appointed to consider the UK’s policy on Iraq from 2001 to 2009, and to identify lessons for the future.

Our Report will be published on the Inquiry’s website after I finish speaking. In 2003, for the first time since the Second World War, the United Kingdom took part in an invasion and full-scale occupation of a sovereign State.

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