Former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam today criticised any plans for war on Iraq.
She also warned about a lack of democracy in the Labour Party during a talk about her new book - Momentum- and claimed the power struggle between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown was damaging the party.
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Mo Mowlam: 'You don't beat terrorists by bombing and shooting'
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Asked whether Parliament should be recalled to discuss a possible conflict in Iraq, she said: "Well they should and we shouldn't go in, it's as simple as that."
She added: "You don't beat terrorists by bombing and shooting. All that does is increase work for the recruitment officers for terrorists."
Ms Mowlam said she was "signed up" for the New Labour project but she insisted the Government had become too centralised.
She said: "It's not that they don't accept dissent, it's just that there's a very small clique, an elite, which I described as something like a law firm where there's four or five people deciding what's happening and it just filters down. That's not politics."
Asked whether she thought there was a power struggle between Mr Blair and Mr Brown she said: "The gang of two - it's a problem."