The Chilcot Inquiry in numbers: What you need to k**w
 

The Chilcot Inquiry in numbers: What you need to k**w
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The much-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war, dubbed the Chilcot report, is about to be published after seven years in the making.*

With its 2.6 million words, the report will be five times the size of War and Peace.*

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We've broken down the report's numbers for you.*

7 years

Since the Chilcot Inquiry was launched by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in order to learn lessons from the Iraq war. The investigation was chaired by Sir John Chilcot.



2.6 million*

Number of words in the report, which makes it the longest report in history. It has been calculated that it would take nine days to read it:* Read more...


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