Blair rejects calls for probe into bombings

July 11, 2005 D. H. McKee

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Tony Blair will on Monday reject Conservative demands for a government inquiry into last week’s London bomb attacks, insisting such a move would distract from the task of catching the perpetrators.
As police and security services on Sunday continued searching for the bombers – thought to be Islamist terrorists – Downing Street said the prime minister believed an inquiry now into the outrage which killed at least 49 people would be a “ludicrous diversion.”
Instead, in a statement to the Commons on Monday following last week’s Group of Eight summit, Mr Blair is expected to focus on the direction the government must take to ensure future terrorism is defeated.
In particular, the prime minister believes there must be far greater co-operation among European Union governments in the fight against terrorism – a view Charles Clarke, the home secretary, is expected to drive home at an emergency meeting of EU interior ministers this week.
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