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  • Geoff Hoon 'banned armed forces from preparing for Iraq invasion' 4 Dec 2009 08:16 GMT
    ... Geoff Hoon held back military preparations for the Iraq invasion when ... the Iraq invasion when he was Defence Secretary, because he wanted to keep the plans ...

  • Mandelson: I wanted EU foreign minister job 4 Dec 2009 07:54 GMT
    ... he wanted to be Europe's first foreign minister Lord Mandelson has admitted that he would ... to the senior EU Post The Business Secretary's announcement that only domestic political considerations had ... Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, Lord Mandelson and Geoff Hoon, the former Defence Secretary, had ruled themselves out of ...

  • Hoon blocked Iraq invasion preparations, inquiry hears 4 Dec 2009 01:56 GMT
    ... in late 2002 were blocked by then-defence secretary Geoff Hoon, who worried that a disclosure of such preparations, would ... emerged it could seriously complicate then-British prime minister Tony Blair's efforts to get a United ...

  • May 2002 ' the date Iraq war plan began 4 Dec 2009 00:34 GMT
    ... said this changed after the then prime minister held talks with the US president at ... had been restricted by the then defence secretary Geoff Hoon to "high level" planning rather than detailed preparations. He ...

  • Blair secrecy 'prevented preparation for Iraq war', inquiry is told 4 Dec 2009 03:44 GMT
    ... Tony Blair did not want anyone to know he was preparing for war. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon even ordered the head of the Armed Forces, Lord Boyce, not to speak to the head ...

  • Iraq probe hears Hoon accused of hindering military 4 Dec 2009 07:59 GMT
    ... Iraq probe hears Hoon accused of hindering military FORMER Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has been accused of preventing military chiefs from properly preparing for the Iraq war. Admiral Lord ...

  • Iraq invasion preparations 'hampered by short timelines' 4 Dec 2009 07:11 GMT
    ... how he had demanded assurances from Prime Minister Tony Blair that the military action was ... was even ordered by the then Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, not to discuss it with the chief of defence ...

  • Britain: Iraq inquiry hears the testimony of guilty men 4 Dec 2009 07:14 GMT
    ... Manning, chief foreign policy adviser of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. All of them have provided ... project Britain’s interests internationally and in a Europe increasingly dominated by the economic and political ... then-foreign and defence secretaries Jack Straw and Geoff Hoon. And they should be joined in the ...

  • UK chief of staff had to brief US counterpart on invasion 4 Dec 2009 01:51 GMT
    ... about the situation. He said US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was so obsessed with carrying ... Lord Boyce also demanded assurances from Prime Minister Tony Blair that the military action was ... ordered by the then UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon not to discuss it with the chief of defence ...

  • Hoon 'banned armed for... 4 Dec 2009 06:14 GMT
    ... London, December 04: Geoff Hoon held back military preparations for the Iraq invasion when ... the Iraq invasion when he was Defence Secretary, because he wanted to keep the plans ...

  • Hoon 'banned armed forces from preparing for Iraq war' 4 Dec 2009 13:24 GMT
    ... London, December 04: Geoff Hoon held back military preparations for the Iraq invasion when ... the Iraq invasion when he was Defence Secretary, because he wanted to keep the plans ...

  • Van Rompuy and Ashton: The mediocrities running Europe 30 Nov 2009 16:53 GMT
    ... capitals, according to David Miliband, Britain's foreign secretary. It's a shame then, said Leo McKinstry ... a cab". Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister, is a "federalist fanatic" from a "dysfunctional ... – he had lined up David Miliband, Geoff Hoon and even Lord Mandelson. He is "left with a ...

  • Brit minister accuses Brown of using women ministers as 'female window dressings' 3 Dec 2009 15:57 GMT
    ... Caroline Flint, who resigned as Britain's Europe Minister, has accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of ... a promotion to the post of Health Secretary which was vacated after Alan Johnson was ... out of the government after Jackie Smith, Geoff Hoon, John Hutton, Margaret Beckett, and Tony McNulty. (ANI) ...

  • A short, round Tory wearing a knuckle-duster 3 Dec 2009 22:01 GMT
    ... Hartlepool in the County of Durham, First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, ... attend. Instead we had lively Chris Bryant, Minister for Europe. Mr Bryant could almost have ... trundler) was given the job. Next was Geoff Hoon, who lasted just three months, though he did do ...

  • French commissioner 'will not damage the City' 3 Dec 2009 17:45 GMT
    ... a Commons debate on Europe, foreign office minister Chris Bryant said that the City of ... Baroness Ashton's appointment as Europe's first 'foreign secretary', François said it was "extraordinary" that had ... secretary Lord Mandleson and former Europe minister Geoff Hoon either turned down the job or were rejected ...


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