Lib Dems snub Blair's review of Iraq intelligence

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today set up a review of intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction – but any hopes that its report would be the final word on the affair were dashed when the Liberal Democrats refused to take part.

The British government sought to draw a line under its use of secret information to promote the case for war against Saddam Hussein’s regime with an all-party committee modelled on the Franks Inquiry into the Falklands war.