Sentences with phrase «dodgy dossier»

, he used a very dodgy dossier of abuses compiled by his vicar - general, Cromwell as an excuse to «dissolve» the monasteries.

Compelling speech from Julian Lewis about myth of 70,000 anti Assad troops - «bogus battalions now replace dodgy dossiers» #SyriaVote

But it seems like the days when they attacked each other with dodgy dossiers alleging Islamic extremism are over.

The ineffectual Chilcot Inquiry was never designed to account Tony Blair; rather it appears to have served as a lesson for future Prime Ministers not to make «administrative» errors like submitting dodgy dossiers.

Julian Lewis, chair of the Commons defence committee, cast doubt over the 70,000 fighters claim, saying: «Instead of having dodgy dossiers, we now have bogus battalions of moderate fighters.»

No sooner had Gary Aitkenhead, the chief executive of Porton Down, made the perfectly reasonable point that it was not his job to provide the entirety of the intelligence argument for Russian involvement, than a thousand internet warriors jumped up to show that the situation was identical to the Iraq «dodgy dossier» and we therefore couldn't believe anything the government said.

In particular, evidence given to the UN about weapons of mass destruction and to the British Parliament (the so - called «dodgy dossier») are now widely accepted to have been a false pretence.

Cameron praised Fox for resigning before smearing Labour's record of «cabs for hire, passports for favours, mortgages for mates, dodgy dossiers», as he and Miliband rushed in their mutual death grasp towards the hard, unyielding verdict of public opinion.

asks a grouchy Alastair Campbell to the camera, upon ruminating on the UK press's mistreatment of the notorious Iraq War «dodgy dossier» story.

Even Mugabe hasn't written a dodgy dossier to support a flawed war though.

asks a grouchy Alastair Campbell to camera, ruminating on the UK press» mistreatment of the notorious Iraq War «dodgy dossier» story.

Although condemned as a «dodgy dossier» by the Tories, it claimed the Conservatives had a # 34bn «credibility gap» after making different promises to different audiences without saying how they would pay for them.

Lib Dem local government spokesman Andrew Stunell said: «Ministers» failure to produce the evidence from the pilot studies is beginning to look like another dodgy dossier.

It would be tempting to join Chilcot in asserting that Blair's «dodgy dossier» and case for the war in Iraq set public trust back by years, but that's only part of the story.

And would you like to comment the so called» dodgy dossier ``, I think you coined the name, alleged by you to have been concocted by Helal Abbas Uddin who has just won a legal action against a Lutfur Rahman newspaper who accused him of being a wife beater.

The new Sir Menzies - known as Ming - recovered from a serious brush with cancer to resume the prominent role he took in challenging the legal basis for the war and the «dodgy dossiers» regarding WMD.

What's so sad is that they then didn't impose the candidate who came second, John Biggs, but instead imposed the candidate who came third, Helal Abbas, who made these false allegations against me in that dodgy dossier and who received only 117 votes.

The report will also slam security chiefs for their part in providing the intelligence for the so - called «dodgy dossier», according to an inquiry source.

The soon this happens the better because as far as I'm concerned once this happens I won't have to pay the «green taxes» which our PM in waiting Gordon «Macavity» Brown chancellor intends to impose on me following the «dodgy dossier» Stern Report he personally commissioned.

«It's like the classic case of the dodgy dossier».

He had done a volte - face on his view of the war, initially supporting British PM Tony Blair and his reliance on the so - called «dodgy dossier».