No regrets about publishing Iraq dossier, says Jack Straw

BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw yesterday declared he did not regret publication of the Government's controversial Iraq dossier.

But he said in future such publications should have their contents questioned more closely.

Mr Straw also repeated that President George Bush and Britain would have taken "yes for an answer" from Saddam Hussein as the United Nations sought to force him to comply with weapons of mass destruction resolutions. The Foreign Secretary's comments came the day after the publication of the Butler Report into the use of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, and as the Tories stepped up their attacks on Prime Minister Tony Blair's credibility as a result.