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Conor Gearty, 18 April 1996

Scott Inquiry Report 
by Richard Scott.
HMSO, 2386 pp., £45, February 1996, 0 10 262796 7
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... on non-lethal arms sales to Iraq’. Even a letter sent by the Prime Minister to the Labour MP Gerald Kaufman ‘was misleading’ in the information it purported to convey. Scott’s unequivocal judgment on all this was that the Government had ‘consistently failed ... to comply with the standard’ it set for itself in Questions of Procedure for ...