Weather Tonight: -1°c Clear Night

Morning: 4°c Cloudy

Critics' Choice

Film

Andrew O'Hagan

quote Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing quote

Precious Theatre

Henry Hitchings

quote Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant quote

Waiting for Godot Theatre

Fiona Mountford

quote Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high quote

Enron

Reader reviews

Film

Simon, London

quote Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat quote

A Prophet Theatre

Ella, London

quote Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour quote

Trilogy Restaurants

Dave A, London

quote We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance quote

Mansons

Blair's 'dodgy dossier' on Iraq set to be revealed after Government loses appeal on keeping it secret

Last updated at 00:22am on 25.01.08

Add your view

Dodgy dossier: Blair was accused of using false information to bounce parliament into Bush's Iraq war

The Foreign Office has been ordered to publish an early draft of Tony Blair's "dodgy dossier" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

It now has 28 days to decide whether to publish the document or appeal to the High Court.

Information Commissioner Richard Thomas originally ordered ministers to hand over the draft last May but the Government appealed.

But the Information Tribunal rejected the appeal.

Campaigners believe the draft, written by then Foreign Office press secretary John Williams, could contain the first mention of Saddam Hussein's ability to launch a WMD strike within 45 minutes - a claim made by Tony Blair in his dossier of September 2002.

However, the draft was never seen by Lord Hutton, who carried out the 2004 inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly, the first to question the 45-minute claim.

The tribunal said: "We do not accept that we should treat the Hutton report as the final word."

Last night researcher Christopher Ames, who applied for the information in 2005, said: "The ruling casts doubt over the Government's claim that the draft played no part in the production of the dossier."