later in 2003, commenting on wmds in iraq he said, "come on, you don't seriously think we won't find anything?". he resigned in august 2003 during the hutton inquiry into the death of dr. david kelly. kelly's view that the government exaggerated the iraqi threat in the iraq dossier, told to bbc journalists andrew gilligan and susan watts, had led to campbell battling with the bbc. when defence secretary geoff hoon revealed to campbell that dr kelly had talked to the bbc, campbell had then decided, in his own words, to use this fact to "fuck gilligan". the counsel for the kelly family said to lord hutton: 'the family invite the inquiry to find that the government made a deliberate decision to use dr kelly as a pawn as part of its strategy in its battle with the bbc.' he claimed in june 2013 that tony blair had "greater commitment to wartime truth" than winston churchill.