Incompetent Boris Johnson should hang his head in shame as ignorance, mistakes and callousness by senior Conservatives condemned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to six years of hell.
She would almost certainly have been released long ago had ministers repaid a £400million debt for tanks earlier instead of blundering, stonewalling and playing political games at the cost of people’s lives.
Hard lessons must be learned and the truth must be published which is why former Tory Foreign Officer Minister Alistair Burt’s call for a Parliamentary inquiry deserves to be heeded in the national interest.