Chilcot inquiry further delays report

The inquiry’s chairman Sir John Chilcot said he will not be ready to publish the report before the middle of 2013 at the earliest, British media reported.

“The Chilcot Inquiry is set to be delayed by at least a year whilst it seeks to declassify details of secret conversations between former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former U.S. President George W Bush”, according to the reports.

Sir John Chilcot said that evidence received by the inquiry was “not wholly consistent”, due to gaps in documentation and personal accounts.

He said the report would be about a million words long, about twice the size of literary epic War and Peace.

Discussions with officials over whether secret documents could be published in the report were continuing, he added.

Last November, the inquiry said it needed extra time to “do justice to the issue involved” and the earliest its conclusions would be handed to the prime minister was this summer.

But it has now announced a further delay, which is likely to result in the report not being completed until the end of next year.

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