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Sir John Chilcot, who died on 3 October 2021, was a highly regarded public servant whose name will forever be associated the forensic inquiry on the ...
He had a stellar career in Whitehall, and one of his greatest achievements was helping to keep the Northern Ireland peace process on track
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If any reader can name the current Secretary of State, or any others over the past 10 years, they deserve a prize. Failure to name any of them is excusable, as most have been undistinguished and indistinguishable. The notable exception is Julian Smith, who was appointed by Boris Johnson and, in a Herculean effort, restored the Assembly. His perverse reward from Johnson was to get the sack. Earlier Secretaries of State were, indeed, distinguished politicians. The wily and affable Willie Whitelaw springs to mind. He was the first Secretary of State and took over the governance of Northern Irela...
Among other considerations, he said there was a âprobabilityâ of being âfaced soon with more evidenceâ from the families or the Irish government and âif we are going to edge in their direction, it could make more sense to do it then rather than move now and having nothing left to offer laterâ. Holmes suggested, instead, that Mayhew meet the families but âessentially in sympathetic listening modeâ. The then secretary of state for Northern Ireland Patrick Mayhew was âdistressedâ at Majorâs refusal to sign the letter expressing regret on ...