People are pointing out an irony from the Chilcot report that applies to Brexit

The current Tory government pushed for the Chilcot report into the Iraq War to be released after the EU referendum.

It seems now the report's conclusions might just have helped in the build up to the EU Referendum vote -at least, if you were in favour of Remaining.

This quote from Sir John's statement this morning says it all:

If only we could have known...

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