Blair on defensive ahead of Iraq intelligence report

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday declared he had not been fed "duff" information on Iraq, as he prepared to study a report into his government's use of intelligence.

Mr Blair declared yet again that the world was safer without Saddam Hussein, even as he began a series of meetings to discuss today's publication of the Butler Report.

The document was delivered to Mr Blair after a meeting with Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi.