The UK parliamentary International Development Committee has criticised former Prime Minister Tony Blair for cancelling giving evidence about the humanitarian situation in Palestine as the Mid-East Quartet’s envoy. Liberal Democrat chairman of the committee Malcolm Bruce said that the testimony was needed to prepare a report. “We put out a press notice last week saying that he was coming to give evidence and as soon as we did that his office rang us and said ‘we can’t come now’. They haven’t given us an explanation,” Bruce told. The former prime minister has been conspicuous by his silence since taking up his post as the Quartet’s envoy 10 months ago, making only one speech in Jerusalem last year. The opposition Conservative’s shadow international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said that the cancellation was “disgraceful.” However, it is reported that the former prime minister suggested that he would attend the committee in the next few weeks.
BLAIR DID NOT TESTIFY
The UK parliamentary International Development Committee has criticised former Prime Minister Tony Blair for cancelling giving evidence about the humanitarian situation in Palestine as the Mid-East Quartet’s envoy.
