ILLEGAL BLAIR

Britain went to war on the basis of a single piece of paper setting out the legality of invading Iraq, the country's most senior civil servant has revealed. The Government's case for war appeared to be in tatters last night after the Cabinet Secretary admitted that a parliamentary answer from Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, was the final legal opinion on the case for war. In an astonishing admission, Sir Andrew Turnbull disclosed that no "full" legal advice on an invasion of Iraq has ever existed.

Iraq war revelation: There was no full legal advice
Cabinet Secretary admits invasion based on single page of A4
By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent
The Independent
11 March 2005