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Mandelson targets 'absurd' ex-envoy who criticised Blair

12 April 2012

Lord Mandelson has lambasted the former British ambassador to Washington who criticised Tony Blair at the Iraq inquiry last week.

Sir Christopher Meyer suggested that the former prime minister had "signed in blood" a secret deal with George Bush to go to war nearly a year before the invasion in 2003.

Speaking to a meeting of the Newspaper Society in the House of Commons, Lord Mandelson spotted new Press Complaints Commission chairman Baroness Buscombe.

The Business Secretary said that he was "pleased" that she had replaced the "absurd individual" who preceded her.

Sir Christopher became PCC chairman after his US posting ended and left the press watchdog this year.

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