PM's spokesman breaks satire barrier

Blair accepts ‘disaster’ in Iraq

Tony Blair has publicly agreed with the opinion that the violence in Iraq since the 2003 invasion has been a disaster. The UK prime minister was responding to a question by Sir David Frost in an interview on the new al-Jazeera English-language Arabic TV channel.

The Liberal Democrats said Mr Blair had finally accepted the enormity of his decision to go to war in Iraq, but Downing Street insisted his views had been misrepresented and that he had not made “some kind of admission”. A spokesman said the prime minister often agreed with interviewers when he responded to their questions.

Even under caution? This could be interesting...



The Prime Minister, apparently