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2 unusual facts about Bob Ainsworth


Cabinet rank

Just as traditionally lower Cabinet jobs can be placed high so can traditionally higher positions be placed low in the rankings such as when Bob Ainsworth (then Secretary of State for Defence, a very important job) was ranked the 3rd lowest ranking minister in Gordon Brown's Cabinet.

Martyn Day

On the 25 November 2009, Bob Ainsworth, then the British Minister of State for the Armed Forces, announced that a retired High Court judge Sir Thayne Forbes would chair the public inquiry into allegations that 20 Iraqis, taken prisoner during the battle, were murdered and that others were tortured.



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