| Tony Blair denied again today that he took Britain to war with Iraq on a false prospectus. In his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, the Prime Minister sought to draw a line under the continuing controversy over the war, saying that while he could apologise for faulty intelligence, he would not apologise for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme today, he again insisted that military action had been necessary because Saddam refused to co-operate with United Nations weapons inspectors. "We took action as a result of Saddam's failure to comply with UN resolutions and that non-compliance still stands," he said. He rejected a claim by UN secretary general Kofi Annan that the war was illegal because Britain and the US had failed to secure a second UN resolution specifically authorising military action. "That is his view. It is not our view," Mr Blair said. |