UK govt demand apology from BBC

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw demanded an apology from the BBC today after Alastair Campbell and the rest of the British government were cleared of political interference in the Iraq dossier row by Commons MPs.

The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said there was no evidence that government communications director Mr Campbell had inserted a claim in the first dossier published last September that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction were deployable in 45 minutes.