Blair Bush memo on Iraq emerges

Former UK PM Tony Blair would support the US if military action was needed in Iraq, a top US official claimed in a memo written a year before the war.

The document, written in March 2002 by ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell to President George W Bush, has been published by the Mail on Sunday.

It said: "Blair will be with us should military operations be necessary."

A spokesman for Mr Blair said the memo's content was consistent with what he had said publicly before.

Carole Walker reports.