"What this means is that the legacy impact of the recession will be more drawn outherethanin other countries where there was swifter action, " said Graeme Harrison, the lead consultant from Oxford Economics.
And that's the case that set the precedent where the government basically said there's a higher interest herethan these widows who wanted to find out why their husbands were killed in this mission.
The politics of this are really so far less important than the substance here, because as I think Jessica pointed out early on in the briefing, there is an absolute economic impact of failing to act here.