Another significant point that emerges from the released section is that Ms Wilmshurst specifically rejects the grounds on which Lord Goldsmith said that the war was legal. He apparently changed his mind from illegality of war to it being legal just before the war was launched. The letter was requested by the BBC News Website's World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds under the Freedom of Information Act - but part of the letter was not revealed. The significance of the missing paragraph is that it appears to show a late change of mind by the attorney general.

The UK under Tony Blair joined hands with George Bush to to the chagrin of the rest of the world attacked Iraq. The former deputy legal adviser made the claim before war in her resignation letter. Ms Wilmshurst resigned from her post on the eve of war because she did not believe military action in Iraq was legal.

Also a report on Channel 4 claims it shows the attorney general Lord Goldsmith changed his mind on the legality of the war at the last moment - declaring it legal just before Mr. George Bush premptively launched the war 90 minutes before the deadline he set himself. Up until his letter to the government of 7 March, in which he supported the legality of the war, he had apparently been of the view that it was not legal. Channel 4, without giving a source for the information, quotes Ms Wilmshurst as indicating that the attorney general changed his mind at the last minute, giving approval for the war after having previously opposed it.