'But for the collapse of the financial markets, last week's devastating revelation that Tony Blair lied to Parliament at the height of the Ecclestone affair would have had a far more deadly impact.
While prime minister, Mr Blair shamefully misled MPs by claiming the decision to exempt Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One motor sport from the Government ban on tobacco advertising was made through normal Whitehall processes - when the truth was that the decision was made by Blair personally within hours of a meeting with the millionaire tycoon in Downing Street.
Now I can provide compelling evidence that the former prime minister lied to Parliament over an infinitely more serious matter - the extent of British government knowledge of what was happening in the Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib.
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