Roger Godsiff

Iraq Enquiry Vote

Speaking after the vote on 31st October 2006 Roger Godsiff MPsaid that it had given him no pleasure to find himself, along witheleven other Labour colleagues, in the same lobby as theConservatives, Liberals, Welsh and Scottish nationalists and otherassorted groups. He did believe however that this was a fundamentalissue and that the Government was wrong not to accept that thereneeded to be proper independent enquiry into the events leading upto the disastrous decision to participate in the attack onIraq.

Roger Godsiff went on to say: ?I was opposed to the decision toattack Iraq because I was not persuaded by the arguments putforward that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and, sadly,everything that has occurred subsequently has reinforced myoriginal decision?.

He concluded: ?The newly controlled Democratic Congress andSenate in America will almost certainly hold their own enquiriesinto the decision by President Bush to attack Iraq and I stillbelieve to would strongly be in the interests of the BritishGovernment and the legacy of Tony Blair, if he agreed to set up thesort of enquiry that was called for in the vote on 31stOctober.?