Iraq inquiry to be held in private
Updated on 15 June 2009
Gordon Brown has announced that an inquiry into the Iraq war will take place but that the evidence will be heard in secret.
Mr Brown told the Commons that the inquiry would look at the run-up to the war in 2003, the war itself and the following "re-construction" period.
The probe would be conducted by non-politicians, led by ex-Whitehall mandarin Sir John Chilcot.
To jeers from Conservative MPs, he said it would take a year to report - taking it beyond the next general election.
Tory leader David Cameron said he was "far from convinced the prime minister has got it right".
He said he was establishing an independent privy counsellor committee of inquiry to look at the period from summer 2001 to the end of July this year.
Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth spoke to Jon Snow about the Iraq inquiry.
Clare Short the former secretary for International Development who resigned over the war in Iraq spoke to Jon Snow.
