 In an interview published in Dartford Living in September 2009 , Benn was critical of the Government 's decision to delay the findings of the Iraq War Inquiry until after the General Election , stating that " people can take into account what the inquiry has reported on but they ’ ve deliberately pushed it beyond the election . Government is responsible for explaining what it has done and I don 't think we were told the truth . " He also stated that local government was strangled by Margaret Thatcher and had not been liberated by New Labour . 
