Former spin-doctor for Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, will today appear before the Iraq Inquiry in London to face questions about his role in the build up to the invasion of 2003.

VICTIMS of torture should have the right to sue foreign governments for damages through British courts, a committee of MPs and peers has said.

The former KGB officer named as a suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London last year said today the British Government’s case against him has collapsed and called the dead man a “traitor”.

THE British Government yesterday formally withdrew its controversial claim that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons capable of being deployed within 45 minutes.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced an end to the informal “sofa” style of government meetings in the wake of the Butler report.

WITH clarity of voice and affable manner, Lord Butler of Brockwell delivered his damning verdict on the failings of intelligence over Iraq.

WHITEWASH is the word that best describes the Butler report on the role of British intelligence leading up to the war on Iraq.

JOHN SCARLETT, the man who drew up the British Government’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, should not lose his job as chief of MI6 despite flaws in intelligence in the run-up to the war, the Butler report said yesterday.

British intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to war was “seriously flawed” and “open to doubt” Lord Butler’s inquiry declared today.

John Scarlett, the man who drew up the British government’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, should not lose his job as chief of MI6 despite flaws in intelligence in the run-up to the war, the Butler report said today.

British intelligence reports on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction in the run up to the Iraq war were “open to doubt” and “seriously flawed”, the Butler Inquiry said today.

The long-awaited Butler Report into intelligence failings in the run-up to war in Iraq was being published in the UK today, amid fevered speculation in Westminster over whether the finger of blame will be pointed at British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The new chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 is to be the current chairman of the UK government’s Joint Intelligence Committee John Scarlett, Downing Street announced today.

British defence secretary Geoff Hoon today tried to play down new controversy surrounding the 45-minute claim in the British government’s Iraq dossier.

Intelligence chiefs ignored warnings from their own leading experts that they could not be certain Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, an ex-intelligence official who gave crucial evidence to the Hutton Inquiry claimed today.

DOWNING STREET last night dismissed claims that Tony Blair knew Iraq did not pose a real threat to Britain before the war.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair privately conceded before war with Iraq started that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction that could be used within 45 minutes, former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook claimed today.

The British prime minister’s official spokesman Tom Kelly, who described Dr David Kelly as a “Walter Mitty” character, began his second stage of evidence to the Hutton Inquiry today.

The inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly was resuming today, with BBC director general Greg Dyke giving evidence for the first time.

OFFICIALS at British foreign secretary Jack Straw's Foreign Office agreed to government weapons expert Dr David Kelly's name being made public, it has emerged.

Tony Blair was under continued pressure over the death of David Kelly today as his former ministers lined up to criticise his role in the affair.

Tony Blair today told of his concern that the British government “handle by the book” the emergence of a possible source for a controversial report on its Iraqi weapons dossier.

Tony Blair has said the aim of the dossier detailing Britain's reasons for going to war against Iraq was "to disclose the reasons why we felt this issue had to be informed".

BRITISH intelligence agencies were issued with an 11th-hour appeal for more evidence to strengthen Downing Street’s dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, it was disclosed yesterday.

TONY BLAIR was yesterday facing a make-or-break week as he prepared to appear before the inquiry into the death of Ministry of Defence weapons expert Dr David Kelly.

DR DAVID KELLY’S widow officially protested to Tony Blair about spin doctors smearing him, secret documents reveal.

DOWNING Street communications chief Alastair Campbell yesterday acknowledged he had seen David Kelly as the key to resolving the British Government’s bitter battle with the BBC over the Iraq weapons dossier.

Downing Street communications chief Alastair Campbell today acknowledged that he had seen Dr David Kelly as the key to resolving the British government’s bitter battle with the BBC over the Iraq weapons dossier.

Tony Blair's spin doctor Alastair Campbell was today giving evidence to the inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death.

DOWNING STREET authorised a “substantial rewrite” of the British government’s Iraqi weapons dossier in the run-up to its publication, according to evidence presented yesterday to the inquiry into the death of the government scientist David Kelly.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair summoned crisis talks to discuss how the Government should handle the news that David Kelly may have leaked information to the media, the inquiry into the scientist's death heard today.

BRITISH Government weapons expert David Kelly was made to undergo a second grilling by Ministry of Defence managers over his contacts with a BBC journalist after the intervention of Prime Minister Tony Blair, the inquiry into his death heard yesterday.