Blair would have quit ‘if Iraq charges true’

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair told the Hutton Inquiry yesterday that if a BBC story claiming his government had “sexed up” its dossier on Iraqi weapons was true he would have resigned.

Speaking at an inquiry into the suicide of scientist Dr David Kelly who was the main source for the report, Mr Blair denied his government had exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq in a key intelligence dossier published last September.

“This was an allegation that we had behaved in a way which...if true would have merited my resignation,” he said.