article_snippet.sent: Earlier this year the report emerged the report, expected to criticise dozen of senior figures involved in the conflict, had been pushed back until after the election because it was too politically sensitive to publish so close to a national poll.
article_snippet.sent: Further delays will fuel speculation that those criticised are trying to bury damning revelations.
article_snippet.sent: , added Sir John thought the final report would likely be ‘watered down’.
article_snippet.sent: Liberal Democrats foreign affairs spokesman Tim Farron said speculation about a delay was ‘deeply concerning’.
article_snippet.sent: It is simply not good enough for this process to be continually delayed and the final report must be published.
article_snippet.sent: The findings have been held up by the process of ‘Maxwellisation’ – giving individuals in the final report a chance to respond.
article_snippet.sent: Newsnight’s diplomatic editor Mark Urban said Newsnight’s diplomatic editor Mark Urban had become a ‘nightmare’, with some of those criticised given drafts running to ‘hundreds of pages’.
article_snippet.sent: Wrangling between the inquiry and Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood over the publication of Whitehall conversations and communications between Mr Blair and President George W Bush has also caused delays.
article_snippet.sent: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was Deputy Prime Minister Nick Cleggdismayed beyond belief that we are having to wait so long –
article_snippet.sent: Neither the Government nor the inquiry would comment on any delays.