It is right for the Prime Minister to write to Chilcot to complain about the inexcusable delays in publishing this inquiry. The public is utterly fed up with this bumbling establishment which cannot conclude, deliver or resolve anything. The difference now is that people will not put up with it any longer and nervous politicians are beginning to sense this. And rightly so.
This process of trying to discover how many lies were told to gain support for the disastrous Iraq war and by whom started before the last General Election and is not now to be published until after the next one. In any normal world this would be considered an abuse of process and a public insult. Such is the ramshackle and uncoded structure of governance which is called our unwritten constitution, these abuses are not only accepted but are standard practice.
Evidently the final delay is caused by giving those criticised in the report an opportunity to respond. That is absurd. Why should the guilty be given the chance to clean up their image?