Christopher Meyer

{{Short description|British diplomat (1944–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2020}}
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| honorific-prefix = Sir
| name             = Christopher Meyer
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}
| image            = Christopher Meyer 011024-D-9880W-030.jpg
| caption          = Meyer at [[the Pentagon]] in 2001
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| order            =
| ambassador_from  = British
| country          = the United States
| monarch          = [[Elizabeth II]]
| president        = {{ubl|[[Bill Clinton]]|[[George W. Bush]]}}
| primeminister    = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start       = 1997
| term_end         = 2003
| predecessor      = [[John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard|Sir John Kerr]]
| successor        = [[David Manning|Sir David Manning]]
| ambassador_from1 = British
| country1         = Germany
| term1            = 1997
| predecessor1     = [[Nigel Broomfield|Sir Nigel Broomfield]]
| successor1       = [[Paul Lever|Sir Paul Lever]]
| monarch1         = Elizabeth II
| president1       = [[Roman Herzog]]
| primeminister1   = Tony Blair
| chancellor1      = [[Helmut Kohl]]
| office3          = [[Downing Street Press Secretary]]
| term_start3      = 1993
| predecessor3     = [[Gus O'Donnell]]
| successor3       = Jonathan Haslam
| primeminister3   = [[John Major]]
| term_end3        = 1996
|birth_name=Christopher John Rome Meyer
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|df=y|1944|2|22}}
| birth_place      = [[Beaconsfield]], England
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=y|2022|7|27|1944|2|22}}
| death_place      = [[Megève]], France
| spouse           = {{ubl|{{marriage|Françoise Winskill|1976|end = divorced}}|{{marriage|[[Catherine Meyer, Baroness Meyer|Catherine Laylle Volkman]]|1997}}}}
| children         = 4
| education        = [[Lancing College]]
| alma_mater       = [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]]
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'''Sir Christopher John Rome Meyer''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} (22 February 1944 – 27 July 2022) was a British diplomat who served as the [[List of British Ambassadors to the United States|Ambassador to the United States]] (1997–2003), [[List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Germany|Ambassador to Germany]] (1997), and the chairman of the [[Press Complaints Commission]] (2003–2009).

He was married to [[Catherine Meyer, Baroness Meyer|Catherine Laylle]], founder of the charity [[Action Against Abduction|Parents & Abducted Children Together]] and [[life peer]], and an active board member of the [https://tfed-ngo.org/ Transatlantic Forum for Education and Diplomacy].

==Early life and education==
[[File:Lancing College Chapel.jpg|thumb|left|Lancing College]]
Meyer was born in [[Beaconsfield]], Buckinghamshire, on 22 February 1944, to Reginald Henry Rome Meyer and his wife, Eve.<ref name="MacAskill" /><ref name = Murphy>{{cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/29/meyer-britain-ambassador-dies/|title = Christopher Meyer, British envoy to U.S. amid buildup to Iraq War, dies at 78|last = Murphy|first = Brian|newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]|date = 29 July 2022|accessdate = 29 July 2022|url-access = limited}}</ref> Reginald was a [[flight lieutenant]] in Coastal Command of the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] who was killed in action over the Greek island of [[Icaria]] 13 days before his son was born; in 2011, Meyer visited the island and met witnesses of the shooting-down and burial of his father.<ref name = MacAskill>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/29/sir-christopher-meyer-obituary|title = Sir Christopher Meyer obituary|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]|date = 29 July 2022|accessdate = 29 July 2022|last = MacAskill|first = Ewen}}</ref>

Meyer was educated at [[Lancing College]], a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational), near the town of [[Lancing, West Sussex|Lancing]] in West Sussex, the [[Lycée Henri-IV]] in Paris and [[Peterhouse, Cambridge|Peterhouse]] at the [[University of Cambridge]], where he graduated in History (he was an honorary fellow of Peterhouse from 2002 on).<ref name = MacAskill/> After graduating, he attended the [[Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Bologna]].<ref name = MacAskill/>

==Diplomatic career==
Meyer began his career in the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] in 1966 in the West and Central African Department as desk officer for French-speaking African countries.<ref name = Murphy/> Following a year's training in the Russian language, his first posting, at the age of 24, was as third secretary to the British embassy in Moscow in 1968, where for his first year he was the ambassador's private secretary. From 1970 to 1973 he was second secretary at the British embassy in Madrid. This was followed by five years in London: firstly, as the head of the Soviet section in the East European and Soviet Department, and, secondly, as speech-writer to Foreign Secretaries [[James Callaghan]], [[Anthony Crosland]] and [[David Owen]]. Meyer was then sent from 1978 to 1982 to the UK permanent representation to the European Communities in Brussels, followed by two years as political counsellor in the British embassy in Moscow.<ref name = MacAskill/> 

He returned to London in 1984 to become [[press secretary]] to the Foreign Secretary, Sir [[Geoffrey Howe]], a position which he occupied until 1988, when he went for a year to Harvard University's Centre for International Affairs as a visiting fellow.<ref name = Murphy/> This was followed by five years at the British embassy in Washington, D.C., as minister-commercial and deputy head of mission. He returned to London in 1994 to become Prime Minister [[John Major]]'s press secretary and government spokesman.<ref name = Murphy/> He was posted briefly to Germany as [[British Ambassador to Germany|ambassador]] in 1997, but was transferred in the same year to Washington as Britain's ambassador to the United States.<ref name = Wintour>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/29/sir-christopher-meyer-former-uk-ambassador-to-us-dies-at-78|title = Sir Christopher Meyer, former UK ambassador to US, dies at 78|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]|date = 29 July 2022|accessdate = 29 July 2022|last = Wintour|first = Patrick|authorlink = Patrick Wintour}}</ref>

===HM Ambassador to the United States===
[[File:Christopher Meyer 011030-D-9880W-017.jpg|thumb|Ambassador Christopher Meyer meeting with [[Donald H. Rumsfeld]] on 30 October 2001]]
His final posting was as [[List of British Ambassadors to the United States|British Ambassador to the United States]] from 1997 until his retirement in 2003. He underwent emergency heart surgery just before the [[invasion of Iraq]] in March 2003.<ref name = Telegraph>{{cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/07/28/sir-christopher-meyer-diplomat-who-served-ambassador-washington/|title = Sir Christopher Meyer, diplomat who served as Ambassador to Washington in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq – obituary|newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]]|date = 28 July 2022|accessdate = 29 July 2022|url-access = subscription}}</ref> Meyer [[List of witnesses of the Iraq Inquiry#26 November|gave evidence]] about his time in the role to the [[Iraq Inquiry]] in November 2009.<ref name="BBC Iraq">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8380139.stm|title=Blair's view on Iraq 'tightened' after Bush meeting|date=26 November 2009|publisher=[[BBC News]]|accessdate=27 January 2010}}</ref>

==The Press Complaints Commission (PCC)==
Meyer was appointed chairman of the [[Press Complaints Commission]], the UK press's self-regulating body, in March 2003.<ref name="Press Complaints Commission">{{cite news|url=http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?article=MTU=|title=Sir Christopher Meyer biography|publisher=[[Press Complaints Commission]]|accessdate=30 November 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928163513/http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?article=MTU%3D|archivedate=28 September 2011}}</ref>

During his tenure from 2003 to 2009, Meyer introduced a number of reforms to enhance the profile, independence and credibility of the Commission. These included increasing the majority of independent Commissioners, introducing independent scrutiny of the PCC's internal processes and decision-making, instituting PCC "away-days" twice a year in the cities and towns of the UK and extending the PCC's remit to online editions of newspapers, including audio-visual material. This led to a significant increase in public use of the PCC, with complaints about the press rising from 2,630 in 2002 to 4,698 by the time Meyer retired as chairman. He was also responsible for developing the PCC's pre-publication activity, including its anti-harassment service, which proved highly effective in protecting people from the unwanted attention of media scrums.<ref>PCC annual reviews 2002–2008 @ www.pcc.org.uk</ref>

Meyer's tenure coincided with the gaoling in 2007 of the ''[[News of the World]]'' reporter, [[Clive Goodman]], and the enquiry agent, [[Glenn Mulcaire]], for [[phone hacking]] offences under the [[Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act]].<ref name = Sky>{{cite news|url = https://news.sky.com/story/britains-former-ambassador-to-the-us-sir-christopher-meyer-to-the-us-dies-12661009|title = Britain's former ambassador to the US Sir Christopher Meyer dies|work = [[Sky News]]|date = 29 July 2022|accessdate = 29 July 2022}}</ref> This prompted the resignation of [[Andy Coulson]], the editor of the ''News of the World''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Robinson |first=James |date=4 February 2007 |title=Memo to all editors: Do not tap this man's telephone |url=https://theguardian.com/media/2007/feb/04/pressandpublishing.business |access-date=30 July 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> 

Later, as the phone hacking scandal spread, the PCC, and Meyer himself, were criticised for not having done more to punish those responsible.<ref name = Sky/> However, Meyer's powers as chair were relatively limited in this respect;<ref name = Sky/> [[Igor Judge, Baron Judge|Baron Ivor Judge]], the then [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales]], said in a 2011 lecture to the Human Rights Law Conference, "To criticise the PCC for failing to exercise powers it does not have is rather like criticising a judge who passes what appears to be a lenient sentence, when his power to pass a longer sentence is curtailed."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Greenslade |first1=Roy |title=Meyer savages press regulation deal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/mar/21/press-regulation-leveson-inquiry |access-date=30 July 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=21 March 2013 |language=en}}</ref> 

Meyer had himself reminded the [[Leveson Inquiry]] in his witness statement, submitted on 14 September 2011, and at his appearance before the Inquiry on 31 January 2012 that phone hacking was a crime under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and that it was not in the remit of the PCC either to apply the criminal law or to carry out investigations that rightfully belonged to the police.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sir Christopher Meyer |url=https://www.discoverleveson.com/witness/Sir_Christopher_Meyer/3990/ |access-date=30 July 2022 |website=Discover Leveson}}</ref>

==Honours==
In 1998, he was appointed Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG).<ref name="knighthood">{{cite web |url=http://www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk/speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=260|title= Sir Christopher Meyer|publisher=London Speaker Bureau|accessdate=1 October 2006 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060923091927/http://www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk/speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=260 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 23 September 2006}}</ref>

Meyer was a non-executive director of the [[Arbuthnot Banking Group]].<ref>{{cite news|title= Public announcement by Arbuthnot Banking Group |date= 5 September 2007 |url=http://www.arbuthnotgroup.com/(X(1)S(to5rlk2b0mq1sh45rhpa0p55))/LatestNews.aspx?id=268&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1=}}</ref> He was also chairman of the Advisory Board of Pagefield and an honorary fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge University. He was a Liveryman of the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers]] and a Freeman of the City of London and, on 3 April 2012, he was appointed Court Assistant ''honoris causa'' by the Company. From 2013 Meyer was a Senior Associate Fellow of the [[Royal United Services Institute]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rusi.org/about/staff/associates/ref:B520D155F6A098/ |title=Sir Christopher Meyer KCMG |publisher=[[Royal United Services Institute]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215073319/http://www.rusi.org/about/staff/associates/ref%3AB520D155F6A098/ |archive-date=15 February 2014 }}</ref> Meyer was named in 2010 the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Visiting Professor at the [[University of North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2009/12/former_diplomat_to_teach |title=Former diplomat to teach; Course will focus on British policy |work=[[The Daily Tar Heel]] }}</ref>

==Writing==
Meyer published his memoirs, ''DC Confidential'', in November 2005, with extracts serialised in ''[[The Guardian]]'' and the ''[[Daily Mail]]''. The book gave rise to considerable controversy. It was attacked by members of the Labour government (Deputy Prime Minister [[John Prescott]] called Meyer a "red-socked fop"),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/prescott-accuses-meyer-of-being-a-red-socked-fop-8692871.html|title=Prescott accuses Meyer of being a 'red-socked fop'|date=20 November 2005|website=The Independent|access-date=29 August 2019}}</ref> while a group of MPs urged him to "publish and be damned".<ref>{{cite news |title=Early Day Motion, House of Commons |date=10 October 2005 |url=http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29168&SESSION=875= |access-date=13 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720095157/http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29168 |archive-date=20 July 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Meyer gave a detailed rebuttal of his critics in written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration.<ref>{{cite news|title=Supplementary Memorandum by Sir Christopher Meyer KCMG |publisher=Volume 2 of Public Administration Select Committee Report "Whitehall Confidential? The Publication of Political Memoirs" |date=18 July 2006 |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmpubadm/689/689i.pdf=}}</ref> In 2005, the memoirs were included in his books of the year by Jim Hoagland, ''[[The Washington Post]]''{{'}}s commentator on foreign affairs, who described them as "thorough" and "credible".<ref>{{cite news |first1=Jim |last1=Hoagl |date=29 December 2005 |title=Foreign Affairs to Remember |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2005/12/29/foreign-affairs-to-remember/56205a5d-d2f1-4e2a-bbaa-7018e0b1aaa7/ }} </ref>

In 2009 he published a second book, ''Getting Our Way'', a 500-year history of [[British diplomacy]] that accompanied a [[BBC 4]] television series of the same name. He was again in the news with this book, serialised this time in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', and again openly critical of the Labour Government under which he served.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/afghan-war-is-waste-of-blood-and-treasure-says-ex-british-envoy-to-us_100262210.html|title=Afghan war is waste of blood and treasure says ex-British envoy to US|publisher=Thaindian News|date=18 October 2009}}</ref>

In November 2013 Meyer published a third book, the [[Amazon Kindle]] single, ''Only Child'', a personal memoir of his childhood interwoven with the story of how his father was shot down and killed in the Second World War. It includes interviews with still surviving witnesses of his father's crash and burial.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Christopher |title=Only Child |date=11 November 2013 |url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GMI3ZN8 |access-date=30 July 2022 |language=English |asin=B00GMI3ZN8}}</ref>

Meyer was also a writer and speaker on international affairs.<ref name="MacAskill" />

==Broadcasting==
Meyer presented several television and radio documentaries on diplomacy for the BBC, including ''Mortgaged to the Yanks'' ([[BBC Two]]/[[BBC Four]] 2006),<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Four – Mortgaged to the Yanks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074t7p |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=22 January 2007}}</ref> ''Corridors of Power'',<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Corridors of Power |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00770tk |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=13 April 2007}}</ref> ''How to Succeed at Summits'',<ref>{{cite web |title=How to succeed at Summits |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/the_westminster_hour/5128750.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=10 July 2006}}</ref> and ''Lying Abroad'',<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Lying Abroad: How to Be an Ambassador, Series 1, Episode 4 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007ntkm |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=20 June 2007}}</ref> all for [[BBC Radio 4]] in 2006 and 2007. These were followed in 2009 by a BBC Radio 4 documentary series on the press called ''The Watchdog and the Feral Beast''.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – The Watchdog and the Feral Beast |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p2zbc |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=December 2009}}</ref> 2009 also saw him present a BBC television series ''Getting Our Way'',<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Four – Getting Our Way |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qtnyh |website=BBC |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=Feb 2010}}</ref> which chronicled episodes from British diplomatic history over the last 500 years and was later turned into a book.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Christopher |title=Getting Our Way: the inside stories and adventures of Britain's diplomatic missions abroad |date=10 November 2010 |publisher=Orion Publishing Group |location=London |isbn=978-0-7538-2716-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jzJRPgAACAAJ |language=en}}</ref>  In 2012 he fronted a six-part international documentary series for [[Sky Atlantic]] called "Networks of Power", which examined the power-brokers of Mumbai, Rome, Moscow, New York, Los Angeles and London. ''The Guardian'' found the series "immensely watchable" and described Meyer as "Paxmanesque – quizzical, authoritative, faintly mischievous".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jul/01/christopher-meyer-wasnt-nice-to-everyone?newsfeed=true | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Decca | last=Aitkenhead | title=Christopher Meyer: 'I wasn't nice to everyone' | date=1 July 2012}}</ref> He frequently appeared on news and current affairs programmes, for example, providing analysis for the BBC's coverage of President [[Barack Obama]]'s state visit to Britain in May 2011.<ref name = "BBC-62343008" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=24 May 2011 |title=Burgers and burning issues on Obama's UK visit |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-13511420 |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref>

Meyer, when asked (in an interview with the BBC) "Which foreign government has the most influence on Washington?", unequivocally responded: "Israel."  When he was then asked "And then?", he said, "Well, in the hit parade I think Israel is in a class of its own..."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sir Christopher Meyer Interview – BBC World Service |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03js1wl |access-date=31 July 2022 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Meyer married Francoise Winskill in 1976; they had two sons and later divorced.<ref name = Murphy/><ref name = Telegraph/> In 1997, he married [[Catherine Meyer, Baroness Meyer|Catherine Laylle Volkman]].<ref name = Murphy/> He sat on the board of the charity his wife founded, [[Action Against Abduction|PACT]] (Parents and Abducted Children Together).<ref>{{cite web |title=The Team |url=http://www.pact-online.org/the-team/ |publisher=[[Action Against Abduction|Pact – Parents and Abducted Children Together]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420035434/http://www.pact-online.org/the-team/ |archive-date=20 April 2015 |date=24 January 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Meyer was admitted to hospital on the afternoon of 11 July 2018 after an alleged attack by two youths at [[London Victoria station]]. He was 74 at the time,<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Sir Christopher Meyer attacked at Tube station |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44806139 |date=12 July 2018 |access-date=12 July 2018|publisher=BBC News }}</ref> and had been doing a significant amount of television work regarding U.S. President [[Donald Trump]]'s UK visit. A 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm, but were released under investigation while enquiries into the incident continued.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/christopher-meyer-attack-girl-15-and-boy-16-arrested-over-assault-of-former-british-ambassador-at-a3886316.html|title=Teenage girl and boy, 16, arrested over attack on former UK ambassador|date=13 July 2018|website=London Evening Standard|access-date=29 August 2019}}</ref> However a witness later came forward to claim that Meyer was not attacked and that he was injured after accidentally falling over.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/teenagers-did-not-attack-former-diplomat-sir-christopher-meyer-he-fell-says-witness-q7fvlbwfw|title=Teenagers did not attack former diplomat Sir Christopher Meyer – he fell, says witness|date=17 July 2018|work=The Times|location=London}}</ref> The boy pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm without intent to Meyer on 11 July 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/31/boy-attack-former-us-ambassador-sir-christopher-meyer|title=Boy handed referral order after attack on former US ambassador|date=31 January 2019|location=London}}</ref>

Meyer died on 27 July 2022, aged 78, at his holiday home in [[Megève]], in the [[French Alps]].<ref name = Murphy/> His cause of death was variously reported as either heart failure or a stroke.<ref name = "BBC-62343008">{{cite news|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62343008|title = Sir Christopher Meyer, UK's former ambassador to the US, dies at 78|work = [[BBC News]]|date = 29 July 2022|accessdate = 29 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.reuters.com/world/former-british-envoy-us-christopher-meyer-dies-2022-07-29/|title = Former British envoy to US, Christopher Meyer, dies|work = [[Reuters]]|date = 29 July 2022|accessdate = 8 September 2022|last = McLellan|first = Kylie|editor-last = Schomberg|editor-first = William}}</ref>

==Books==
* Christopher Meyer (2005), ''DC Confidential'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ({{ISBN|0-297-85114-4}})
* Christopher Meyer (2009), ''Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson ({{ISBN|0-297-85875-0}})
* {{cite book|title=Only Child|author=Christopher Meyer |publisher=Kindle Single eBook, Amazon.co.uk|asin=B00GMI3ZN8 |publication-date= 2013}}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Christopher Meyer}}
*''The Guardian'', [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/page/0,12956,1636156,00.html Sir Christopher Meyer's memoirs]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080920173426/http://www.jlamanagement.co.uk/ChristopherMeyer/ JLA, speaker profile]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090211185500/http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?article=MTU ''Press Complaints Commission'']
*{{C-SPAN|51909}}

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