SENIOR officials responsible for compiling the British government’s dossier on Iraqi weapons ignored concerns among the intelligence analysts about key claims in the document, the Hutton Inquiry was told yesterday.

Intelligence officials expressed concern that evidence in the British government’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was “over-egged”, the Hutton Inquiry was told today.

INTELLIGENCE officials were so concerned about the British Government’s Iraqi weapons dossier some complained formally to their superiors, the inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly was told yesterday.

FORMER British cabinet ministers Robin Cook and Clare Short said yesterday they were both told by MI6 in the run-up to the war with Iraq that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction did not pose any immediate threat.