The Cabinet Office lied to MPs in an attempt to keep Earl Mountbatten's private letters and diaries out of the public eye, a tribunal was told on Monday. Andrew Lownie, the author and historian battling to gain unrestricted access to the archive, said it was" shameful" that it had not been made available to the public in its entirety, 11 years after it was saved for the nation.He said the documents were" crucial" to biographers and historians but that the case had also raised" very important iss