Iraq Inquiry report now expected in 2015

Sir John Chilcot’s report into the Iraq War is now not expected to be published until spring 2015, leaving worries for Labour as to how it will affect the election campaign.

The Independent reports that “discussions between the inquiry and the Cabinet Office remain deadlocked, and a year-long stand-off is now unlikely to be resolved before the current parliamentary session ends. Even if a deal were reached over the summer recess, legal protocols and procedures would push the Iraq report’s publication into the spring of next year.”

Regardless of the findings of the inquiry, and despite Miliband having already said that he felt the military intervention of 2003 was “wrong”, many figures within the Party are worried that the association to Iraq could lead to a dip in support that, following this delay, could be difficult to re-establish in such a short period of time before polling day.