Pressure on Blair to make statement on Iraq

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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2005/0428/1804074864HM1MILLAR.html

Frank Millar, London Editor

Tony Blair faced demands for a full public statement last night as the first documentary evidence emerged about his attorney general's doubts about the legality of the Iraq war just 10 days before the Allied invasion.

Channel 4 News broadcast details of what it claimed was attorney general Lord Goldsmith's secret legal opinion to the prime minister of March 7th, 2003.

In it, Lord Goldsmith warned Mr Blair the British government would "need to consider urgently" the strength of its legal case if it failed to secure a second United Nations resolution sanctioning the military conflict.

And the programme said the contents of the document - which the government has refused to publish - differed sharply from the summary of the attorney's opinion presented to cabinet 10 days later when Lord Goldsmith advised that the military action was in fact lawful.

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