{"id":2831,"date":"2009-12-26T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T10:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2009-12-26T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T10:34:26","slug":"gordon-brown-iraq-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gordon-brown-iraq-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown to testify before Iraq inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gordon-brown1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2832\" title=\"Gordon Brown \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gordon-brown1-280x186.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Brown \" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gordon-brown1-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gordon-brown1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gordon-brown1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>British leader Gordon Brown won&#8217;t testify before his country&#8217;s investigation of the Iraq war until after the next general election, the committee behind the inquiry said Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iraq Inquiry, which is investigating the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, said Gordon Brown and other senior ministers wouldn&#8217;t be quizzed until after the poll in an effort to keep proceedings clear of party politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The committee believes that only after the general election can these ministers give their evidence fully without the hearings being used as a platform for political advantage,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A general election &#8211; which is widely expected to sweep Gordon Brown&#8217;s ruling Labour Party out of office &#8211; must be held some time before the middle of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to delay Brown&#8217;s testimony was criticized by Britain&#8217;s two leading opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Liberal Democrats said it appeared that John Chilcot, who was appointed by Brown to lead the inquiry earlier this year, was sparing the prime minister a potential embarrassment ahead of a tough election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British leader Gordon Brown won&#8217;t testify before his country&#8217;s investigation of the Iraq war until after the next general election, the committee behind the inquiry said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,14],"tags":[708,799,801,3756,3757,2133,803],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-world","tag-british-prime-minister-gordon-brown","tag-gordon-brown","tag-gordon-brown-gordon-brown","tag-gordon-brown-iraq-inquiry","tag-iraq-inquiry","tag-minister-gordon-brown","tag-prime-minister-gordon-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}