Opposition to speed-read Scott Report
- Title
- Opposition to speed-read Scott Report
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 15 Feb 1996
- Year of production
- 1996
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- Duration
- 00:00:20
- Description
- Lord Roy Jenkins, the Liberal Democrats’ leader in the Lords, has rejected the government’s offer of a lunchtime look at the Scott Report into sales of arms to Iraq, ahead of its release at 3.30 pm. Robin Cook and other opposition Foreign Affairs spokesmen will be speed-reading the report. In a closed room within the DTI they will have three hours to digest a five-volume report that’s taken three years to compile. Robin Cook acknowledges that this will not be an easy task.
- Contributors
- Robin Cook
- Keywords
- Reports; Government; Labour Party; Exports; UK; Arms sales; Political parties; Access to information; Iraq; Scott Report; Richard Scott; Political scandals
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