Article: The ghost of Sir Richard Scott's inquiry. (into arms trade in Great Britain, 1935)

A British company sells arms to renegade third-world countries; the Conservative-led Government tries to deflect public criticism by forming an inquiry led by a Lord Justice; civil servants and a former prime minister appear before the inquiry; the government is scolded in the inquiry's report for its lax control over the sale of arms abroad and sweeping changes are recommended. Is this: (a) a description of the Scott Inquiry of 1992/95; or (b) a description of the 1935/36 Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trade in Armaments? Answer: Both.

As Sir Richard Scott prepares his report on the arms-to-Iraq scandal, he is perhaps unwittingly haunted by the ...

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