Greg Dyke challenges Blair's integrity

9.16.33am BST (GMT +0100) Sun 29th Aug 2004

Greg Dyke, the ex-chairman of the BBC, was forced to resign by a war of attrition from 10 Downing Street over the 'sexed-up' Iraq dossier. In his memoirs serialised in the Mail on Sunday, he claims he was fired because the BBC told the truth, and that Tony Blair was "either incompetent, or he lied" about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Despite requests to apologise, 'the Prime Minister has never stood up and said to the British people, "I am sorry." There was a moment when he could have done so, and we might have forgiven him. That moment is past. We were all duped. History will not be on Mr Blair's side.'

In the run-up to the Hartlepool by-election, Greg Dyke's evidence will show once again that Labour is not to be trusted, and that Tony's cronies, like John Scarlett, get promoted to deter them from expressing their concerns publicly about 'using' the security services to present a bogus case for war. The Attorney General was told that his advice on the legality of the war was 'too weak' and had to be hardened up. The PM's aide, Peter Gould boasted that they had appointed the right judge in Hutton to clear the Prime Minister of misleading Parliament.

The Mail on Sunday refers to "This devastating indictment of Blair, the moral bankrupt" and comments that despite Blair claiming his actions were dictated by the highest of principles, the evidence increasingly casts this claim in doubt. Alastair Campbell was 'let off the leash' to run a hysterical campaign to undermine people's trust in the BBC. Dyke refers to Campbell as a 'deranged vindictive bastard' and a 'political thug'. Yet Blair allowed Campbell to do his master's dirty work 'in a manner which no truly moral or principled leader would condone.' the paper says.