MP Geoff Hoon - I do not think that anyone suggested that this was an example of a smoking gun.
In March 2002, British defence secretary Geoff Hoon stated that the UK was prepared to use nuclear weapons against "rogue states" such as Iraq if they ever used "weapons of mass destruction" against British troops in the field.
Its formation was announced on 16 December 2004 by Geoff Hoon and General Sir Mike Jackson as part of the restructuring of the infantry and it was actually formed on St David's Day, 1 March 2006.
During a debate in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in late March 2003, British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon somewhat inadvisedly compared Umm Qasr to the southern English city of Southampton.
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On 9 December 2010, Geoff Hoon along with Stephen Byers and Richard Caborn were banned from parliament, the Standards and Privileges Committee banned Geoff Hoon for a minimum five years as his was the most serious breach, whilst Byers received two years and Caborn six months.
From 1997 to 1999, Gray was special adviser to former Secretaries of State for Defence George Robertson and Geoff Hoon, where Gray directed the 1998 Strategic Defence Review.
Geoff Hoon MP, (1953- ) who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1999 to 2005, during the invasion of Iraq.
This was later admitted by Geoff Hoon the then secretary of state for defence in a letter to Paul Keetch Paul Keetch the Liberal Democrat defence spokesman.