No 10 u-turn over Iraq war inquiry
Downing Street has appeared to open the way for some hearings in the Iraq War inquiry to be held in public.
The Prime Minister's spokesman said that it had never been "an issue of theology" for the Government whether hearings were held in the open or behind closed doors.
He said that it would be up to the inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot to decide how it should be structured in order to achieve its objective of establishing the truth of what happened.
He stressed however that the Government did not want to see a lengthy public inquiry like the Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings which went on for years involving "countless lawyers".
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