Blair says media abandoned accuracy for scandal
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LONDON -- In a parting salvo at media that alternately defined and savaged his administration, British Prime Minister Tony Blair accused journalists yesterday of abandoning accuracy and objectivity in favor of scandal and controversy on a scale which "literally overwhelms" public discourse.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded that his popularity with the British public had been badly dented by the war in Iraq, but insisted he would be trusted again over any future conflict.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has escaped a new grilling over a &quot;cash-for-honours&quot; scandal threatening to cloud his last months in office, using a parliamentary quizzing to trumpet his achievements in power.
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"It was not entirely clear whether it was deliberate... i.e. a warning shot that they could and would do it without us... or a f***-up. We all assumed the latter"  British prime minister Tony Blair overrode cabinet colleagues who had doubts about going to war against Iraq, his former press chief revealed in diaries published today. via The West Australian
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has dismissed as &quot;utter nonsense&quot; and &quot;gross caricature&quot; a Muslim's claim that the country was a &quot;police state&quot; for Muslims after he was arrested in anti-terror raids last week.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday denied leading Britain into war on a false prospectus, despite intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq being wrong.
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&quot;There is an open disagreement between us and we should be honest enough to acknowledge that,&quot; says Blair&#39;s spokesman.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under fire after fraud investigators stopped a probe into a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia due to concerns it would damage Britain's national interests.
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BRIGHTON, England British Prime Minister Tony Blair is admitting some of the country's intelligence on Iraq was wrong.
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LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair vigorously denied on Wednesday that he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war, rejecting growing demands in Parliament to apologize for misleading his country.    Blair again accepted that British intelligence pointing to stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons was flawed, but he insisted he had been right to back the U.S.-led invasion...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has been interviewed by police investigating allegations of cash for honours.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw have been accused of &quot;clearly misleading&quot; the public over plans for post-war Iraq.
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Prosecutors said Friday they will not bring any charges over a &quot;cash-for-honours&quot; scandal which clouded Tony Blair&#39;s last year as prime minister.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday he bore no responsibility for the violence in Iraq, dismissing allegations from a former ambassador to Baghdad that the British leader failed to focus on stabilizing the country immediately after the invasion.
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Tony Blair yesterday offered critics of his Iraq war strategy his most contrite justification for the conflict so far but stopped short of an outright apology, removing the word &quot;sorry&quot; from the text of his speech to Labour&#39;s Brighton conference in
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"The damage saps the country's confidence and self-belief ... it reduces our capacity to take the right decisions"  Britain's media is like a "feral beast" that tears people and reputations to shreds, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday in his parting shot at journalists after a decade in power. via WDIF-FM Marion
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Britain's press was divided after Prime Minister Tony Blair's annual speech to the Labour Party conference, some giving him credit for admitting the intelligence was wrong over Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction, while others slated him for refusing to apologise over the war in Iraq.