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GENERAL ELECTION: Attorney General advice on Iraq war published; ENGLAND: Yorkshire: Colne Valley:INTJohn Prescott (Deputy Prime Minister) being asked by Lucy Manning if this is first time he has seen document (Attorney General's legal advice on Iraq war) SOT- I sit in Cabinet, sit in all sorts of things where I get documents, I'm not going to discuss with you the content of what I receive in war Cabinet or Cabinet/ we got the decision at right point in time when we as Cabinet collectively had to make decision whether we're going to make serious decision about whether to take military action against Iraq/ the decision was made on March 17th after, even better than documents, we had Attorney General giving his advice clearly/ we made the decision and parliament endorsed it the next dayPAN as Prescott turns away as other journalists press him that he hasn't seen itJohn Prescott continued SOT- there was awful lots of documents go on all the time with these matters, all the time on Iraq, - why would I be cross- on March 17th every one of us in Cabinet had full discussion, it was 24th discussion on Iraq/ the Attorney General appeared before us/ he was updated about what decisions had been taken at UN and he made it clear, given all that, and latest information, even events that occurred after the document you are talking about, the latest stage of information, he did better than documents, he came in and explained it, we questioned him, we were assured it was legal to take action, we took decision collectively as Cabinet and parliament endorsed it as Jack and others showed parliament reason why we took this decisionTRACK behind Prescott as away with Manning trying to show him document------------------------------------------Clean Feed Tape = D0600083 OR D0600084 00:06:59:21 - 00:09:01:14 FX/FXProgramme as Broadcast Tape = D0600082 Order Ref: T28040511