Blair insists he was right to go to war against Iraq

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday defiantly declared he was right to go to war against Iraq and had not misled the public or Parliament to do so.

But he said Saddam had concealed his weapons of mass destruction and predicted only that “evidence of WMD programmes” would be found.

The Prime Minister insisted, however, that the intelligence he published last September that Saddam could deploy WMD in 45 minutes had been right at the time.