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Johhny Mercer's witness statement to the inquiry is fucking bonkers; he pushed through two separate acts of Parliament to make prosecution of soldiers more difficult in 2021-23 but when it came to Afghanistan various whistleblowers told him really bad things happened, then intelligence services showed him a letter proving it did, meaning MOD effectively got him to lie to Parliament about things they knew were true.
But after all that he refuses to disclose who told him.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65403/the-remarkable-witness-statement-of-johnny-mercer
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Being Minister for the Armed Forces when a fellow Tory MP (isn’t there bad blood between the two?) gets sent to prison for not revealing sources to an Independent Inquiry is etc, etc
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/26/minister-johnny-mercer-name-sources-afghan-inquiry-jail-term-british-troops-war-crimes