Chinook “new” evidence rejected

John Major’s face was ashen as he asked to use the phone in my office on hearing the news of the Chinook crash, after taking part on an Election Call programme for the Euro-election of 1994. (I was surprised he didn’t have his own comms but there you are). It was such a casually awful waste of life. And so began a saga which hasn’t ended even now. The case for the pilots isn’t all family based. Malcolm Rifkind, former Defence Secretary, switched sides and Lord Chalfont a dedicated forces buff and Wilson government minister has always been a champion.

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