The inquiry relates to price-setting in 2002 and 2003.

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Mr Price remains on bail as part of the inquiry and was dismissed from his post after being found guilty of gross misconduct.

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Against the initial instincts of his foreign affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, and Alan Beith, the senior Lib Dem who sits on the Intelligence and Security Committee, Mr Kennedy demanded as the price of his co-operation a widely based inquiry that would examine both the political decision-making and the war's legality.

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