The Spectator has gone all conspiracy theory on us today.
The author of this blog does not fancy a walk in the woods or being driven through a French underpass, so we'll word this very carefully.
John Kampfner, writing in The Spectator, states that the decision to hold the Iraq inquiry in private centred on the relationship between Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Gormless.
Kampfner claims that in exchange for propping up Gormless when he looked doomed as PM, Mandelson "on Blair’s behalf... set down specific conditions for the Iraq war inquiry".
Kampfner goes on to claim that: "Not only would the hearings be fully in private, but the committee would, as with Hutton, be manageable".
One of the implications of Kampfner's piece is that Gormless is so pathetically weak that he obediently does whatever Mandelson tells him.
Make of it all what you will...
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