Norman Baker The Strange Death of Dr Kelly

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Anyone can commit a murder, but it takes an artist to commit a suicide. Old KGB saying

The high-profile death of government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly twenty-one years ago, amid the tumult of Britains controversial invasion of Iraq, plunged the New Labour government into crisis and led to the resignation of the BBCs Director General. An informal inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton into the circumstances surrounding Kellys death cleared the government of wrongdoing but was widely dismissed as a whitewash.The Strange Death of David Kelly argues that neither the medical evidence nor David Kellys state of mind and personality supported the verdict of suicide.Analysing the official process instigated after Kelly's death, putting the entire episode into its political context and scrutinising the actions of the government in launching the Iraq War, the new edition of the instant bestseller which this talk is based on was fully updated in 2024 to include the latest evidence and theories surrounding this most mysterious and political of deaths.

Norman Baker was the Lib Dem MP for Lewes from 1997 to 2015 and established a reputation as one of the most dogged and persistent parliamentary interrogators the modern House of Commons has known. Following the 2010 general election, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, then Minister of State for Crime Prevention at the Home Office. He is the author of And What Do You Do? What the Royal Family Dont Want You to Know and a political memoir, Against the Grain. He is an established singer-songwriter and has released three albums and also hosts three weekly music shows on his local FM station.A Q&A Session will follow.