COULD Shaun Woodward be the first Secretary of State to officially sanction a cover-up under the Inquiries Act? The chairman of the Wright Inquiry seems to think so, after Lord MacLean ‘wrote to the Secretary of State to notify him of an “impending application” by the Ministry of Defence seeking an order that would stop the inquiry from referring to “certain information” in public’.
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