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Attorney General’s Advice on Iraq

Asked about the meeting between Lord Falconer, Lord Goldsmith and Baroness Morgan, the PMOS said that he would neither comment on leaks nor on private meetings. Asked about whether the Parliamentary Statement on the legality of the invasion of Iraq reflected the Attorney General’s view, the PMOS said that he would refer people to the Attorney General’s statement over night in which he said that in his "Parliamentary answer on 17th March I explained my genuinely held, independent view that military action was lawful under the existing Security Council resolutions. It was certainly not a view expressed as a result of being ‘lent on’ in any way. Not as he had already made clear was it written by anyone at Number 10." Those were Lord Goldsmith’s own words and own judgment in this case as was his answer on the 17th March. The reality was that nothing that had been published in the last few days, changed this story one iota. Asked if it was appropriate for the law officers to be meeting with Baroness Morgan, the PMOS said that he didn’t comment on internal discussions. Asked if perhaps someone else had drafted the words for the Attorney General from his own office, the PMOS said that he wasn’t going to get into processology.

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