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81: Boris and Inquiries

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The Bristol Hart Inquiry

I was told before I gave evidence that he'd give me a bit of a going over on the witness tank because they had to be seen to you know. The first story I broke when I propositioned Mr Hizlop in the toilet at a BBC Radio light at Christmas party in 1991 and offered him a provisional column. In 1992 I talked about junior doctors working conditions but I also learnt because I was living in Bristol at Far Too Many Babies were dying after heart surgery in Bristol. Seven years later what was then the largest public inquiry in British history has been usurped by many other since. Even if I'd gone through the correct channels it wouldn't have changed anything and I was

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