BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair last night faced calls to sack the Downing Street spokesman who suggested Dr David Kelly may have been a “Walter Mitty” character.

BRITISH government ministers and BBC bosses are facing a public grilling on their treatment of Dr David Kelly, after the law lord appointed to investigate the civil servant’s death announced yesterday he would not hold his inquiry behind closed doors.

Tony Blair should resign as British Prime Minister over the death of Dr David Kelly, the defence official at the centre of the row over the Government’s Iraq arms dossier, a former Labour minister said today.

More than 50 British Labour MPs tonight staged a Commons revolt against Tony Blair’s attempts to rally support for possible military action against Iraq.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has flown back to Britain today into a major row with a significant element within the Labour Party over his threat to use military action to topple Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.