UK intelligence officers are expected to consult ministers in most circumstances in which a detainee they wish to question is at risk of torture.
Its report said there was "no justification" for failing to consult ministers.
It is possible that Italy could find a way of following the lead of countries such as Poland and the Netherlands, which have withdrawn troops amid much ballyhoo, but then quietly returned many of them as "instructors".It was also clear that the prime minister had not consulted his ministers before his television announcement.
The communications minister pointedly said the details of the policy were yet to be fleshed out and should go to cabinet – hinting at disquiet that the prime minister had not consulted senior ministers before calling the snap joint party room meeting on Tuesday.
Before 1999, when the published diaries start, he had been the influential chair of the home affairs select committee, independent-minded, regularly consulted by ministers.
Heseltine has consulted government ministers closely during the preparation of the report, but in an attempt to underline his independence he has largely kept the conclusions from ministers, briefing the business department only on Monday.
Although it is the longest and most complex measure the assembly government has yet consulted on, ministers are keen to make clear that it is a draft language measure and one they are prepared to discuss fully.
In a recent interview, Mr. Sukur, a supporter of Mr. Erdogan's Islamist rival, Fethullalh Gulen, a self-exiled cleric and leader of one of the world's largest Islamist movements, disclosed that he had consulted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his plans to run for the presidency of Turkish Football Federation TFFF).
Then, late last month, King Mohammed VI, without consulting his ministers, called his country's ambassador home from Madrid "for consultations", and called off a summit scheduled for December.
He rules, often without consulting his ministers.
