Probe won’t push me out of office, vows Blair

TONY BLAIR said yesterday he fully intends to stay in office, as an inquiry into the suicide that triggered his worst-ever crisis adjourned for 10 days.

In his first Downing Street press conference since the death of scientist Dr David Kelly, Mr Blair refused to field questions about either the late weapons scientist or the judicial inquiry into why he took his life.

"Let the judge do the judging," he said, as Lord Brian Hutton heard from his last batch of witnesses at the Royal Courts of Justice before adjourning until September 15 to ponder the evidence so far.