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Mates on confidential Iraq papers

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MPs have voted to approve the terms of the Iraq War inquiry, which will now have the power to apportion blame.

During the course of the debate, the former Conservative minister Michael Mates, who was a member of the Butler inquiry into the use of intelligence material in the run-up to the war, said he had seen files which would make certain people's eyes water when they saw them.

He told BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme that the papers referred to matters beyond the remit of the Butler inquiry, but which would be central to the new inquiry.

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