The Hutton report into the suicide of British weapons expert David Kelly is to be published in the coming weeks. Already the media and political elite inside the Westminster bubble are frothing at the mouth with excitement. Will Hutton call Blair a liar? Is Hoon finished? Should Gilligan start looking for alternative employment? All very interesting of course. I, myself will be following events closely. However we should not lose sight of the main issue.

This time last year Blair was engaged in a sustained campaign of lies, misinformation, distortion and exaggeration about Iraq’s WMD in order to frogmarch the British people into a war which they did not want. The scapegoating of David Kelly is only one small part of this much larger picture. Of course his family deserve to know why he died but all of us deserve to know why thousands have died in Iraq. Once Hutton has reported on the death of Dr. Kelly he should turn immediately to a much wider inquiry into Blair’s tissue of lies.