WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION? Contact the Cornwall Tourist Board (01872 322900, ).A landscape that has inspired poets and writers Follow the Du Maurier trail from Jamaica Inn to Frenchman’s Creek Artists aren’t the only ones to have been inspired by Cornwall’s light and landscape. His strategy was to be seen to appeal to dissenters by voicing an “acceptance of genuine concern”, by confidently predicting WMDs would be found, by explaining the dossier production and by stressing the assurances of the Joint Intelligence Committee that “nothing wrong took place”.On the question of the BBC, he wrote, “it is worth saying there is not a lot we can do if the BBC for example prefer to take the word of an anonymous official against the word of the Prime Minister and all the heads of the Agencies”.. And just because we haven’t found him does not mean he did not exist,” the letter suggests.At a time when many on Labour’s backbenches, in the press and amongst Opposition politicians were calling for an inquiry by the Intelligence and Security Committee into the handling of the Iraq dossier, Mr Campbell urges the Prime Minister to keep his remarks “low key”.The document makes clear that Mr Campbell knew the Government appeared to be “on the defensive”. “The fact that Saddam has gone tells me we did the right thing.

“The slow beginnings of democracy tells me we did the right thing,” he goes on. Alastair Campbell betrayed the Government’s fears that its critics were feeding off the failure to discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, documents released by the Hutton Inquiry revealed yesterday.
Tony Blair’s communications chief, in a letter sent just days after Andrew Gilligan’s explosive BBC broadcast claiming Number 10 had “sexed up” the Iraq weapons dossier, and ahead of the Prime Minister’s report to Parliament on his visit to meet British troops in southern Iraq, blamed the “current frenzy” on the fact that “nothing new has been found”.The lengthy briefing note makes clear that Mr Campbell understood the questions about the dossier “won’t go away”. Do you recognise that?” Mr Campbell replied with one word: “Wrong.”Acknowledging that he had been spared a fruitless search, the journalist responded: “Thanks.”. After the MoD issued a press release saying that an unnamed official had admitted meeting Mr Gilligan, newspapers were seeking the name of his contact.Mr Campbell told the inquiry that he felt it was inevitable that the name would come out, “but I did not do anything to bring that about”.On 8 July, however, Mr Campbell was emailed by a journalist on The Times, Philip Webster, who said he had received a tip that Mr Gilligan’s source “is a Foreign Office official (female) who is now in South Africa, having either left the FCO or been moved there for a diplomatic appointment.

“Everything stems from that, so tomorrow is in part about saying as much as you can about the process towards discovery.”As part of the “more combative approach”, Mr Campbell suggests that the Prime Minister tell Parliament that “the joy on the faces of the children I met [in Iraq] tells me we did the right thing”.A second note from Mr Campbell urges Mr Blair to allow him to give evidence to the FAC because of his role in chairing a key committee involved in compiling the Government’s dossier on Iraqi weapons.An email also released last night calls into question Mr Campbell’s evidence to the inquiry last week on another issue: the way Dr Kelly’s name became public. The Government went to extraordinary lengths to gag Dr David Kelly because of fears that he would expose fundamental flaws in its case for war. I am no different to anybody else.”BiE wants to use the approaching party conference season to make its case for euro membership, arguing that the longer entry is delayed, the higher the costs to Britain will be.It plans to lobby hard for the single currency in an attempt to regain the initiative from the eurosceptic camp, which is raising concerns about the European constitution rather than debating euro membership.. “After 9 June, you expect a very large number of people who have been working for us for four or five years to start to look for jobs and move on. Mr Buckby is understood to be considering his position.He said the June announcement had forced the campaign to “redefine” its position. Mr Buckby, officially BiE’s campaigns director, is a known Labour supporter.Tensions flared up within BiE amid suggestions from some of its most senior figures that the organisation had failed to make a vigorous enough case for the euro in the run-up to the June announcement on the five tests Several employees are thought to have quit in protest.

Some board members are thought to favour the appointment of a dynamic campaigner, one, crucially, with fewer ties to New Labour. I think some people do feel a bit let down, to be honest.”The crisis has prompted the board of Britain in Europe to try to distance itself from the Labour government and return to its roots as a cross-party alliance.It is felt the campaign will be better able to put its point across if it is not seen as a Blairite organisation, afraid of taking the lead where the Government will not.BiE insiders claim this rethink has cast doubts over Mr Buckby’s future. “The political debate has been focusing on everything and anything else,” an insider said. “There is no point in our engaging in high-profile activities.”Though campaigners were encouraged by the Government’s public commitment to campaign for a “Yes” vote in a future referendum, they were dismayed that there has since been “no real sense about what shape that campaign is going to take”.”It is important to have some idea about that, otherwise we will be campaigning in a vacuum,” the source said “There is some disappointment. The pro-single currency campaign, Britain in Europe, faces an exodus of staff, including the expected departure of Simon Buckby, the man who runs it.
The resignations have been prompted by frustration at the Government’s failure to take the lead on euro entry and a sense that the campaign had “lost its direction” after the Government’s assessment of its five tests for entry in June.BiE has admitted that several members of its team are moving on.