I wouldn't have backed Blair on Iraq: Howard

British Tory leader Michael Howard said tonight that he would not have backed the British government in the crucial Commons vote on the Iraq war if he had known that the intelligence was flawed.

His comments, in an interview with the Sunday Times, come after the Butler Report found that the intelligence on Iraq’s banned weapons – described by Mr Blair as “detailed, extensive and authoritative” – was in fact “sporadic and patchy”.