David Kelly was “taken aback” by the way BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan grilled him for information, the Hutton Inquiry was told today.

The chairman of the Commons committee which interrogated British government weapons expert Dr David Kelly just two days before his apparent suicide was today giving evidence to the inquiry into his death.

DOWNING Street communications chief Alastair Campbell is to give evidence next week to the inquiry investigating the death of Government weapons scientist David Kelly, it was announced yesterday.