Full Disclosure on the Iraq War

I don't believe that Labour deserves to win the next election, but safe in the knowledge that they don't listen to a word I say, I'd suggest that it cannot regain the trust of the electorate unless it comes clean about the Iraq war. This means publishing the minutes of the cabinet meetings of 13 and 17 March 2003, which discussed the invasion.

The government was instructed to release them by the information commissioner but – in a disgraceful act of censorship last month – Jack Straw suppressed them. This, he said, was necessary to maintain "the integrity of our system of government". That's right – integrity.

It also means launching an independent inquiry, run by someone other than a loyal invertebrate like Lord Hutton, into the decisions and instructions which led to war. And if the government wants to show that it can never happen again, it should – like other, more civilised countries – incorporate the Nuremberg principles into English law. This would ensure that future administrations would be reluctant to launch an illegal and unprovoked war, as they would expose themselves to prosecution for "the supreme international crime" on home soil.