Tragedy prompts hard questions

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Tragedy prompts hard questions


By Nyta Mann
BBC News Online political correspondent



David Kelly before the foreign affairs committee
It was impossible for Tony Blair to do anything but concede an independent judicial inquiry into the apparent death of David Kelly.

The prime minister knows that if, as feared, the body found at Harrowdown Hill is Dr Kelly's, he has no other option.

The issue of how Dr Kelly came to be at the centre of the post-war storm over Iraq, intelligence and weapons of mass destruction has suddenly, tragically, become too grave to do anything else.

"Have you ever felt like the fall guy?" he was asked when he appeared before the foreign affairs select committee earlier this week.

The question came some way through the meeting, by which point committee members had concluded that he was probably not the source at the centre of the Alastair Campbell vs BBC row over "sexed up" intelligence information.

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