The Tories have called it "appalling" that ministers did not try to "put the record straight" over the now infamous 45 minute claim about Iraq's weapons.
Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said the claim, in a government dossier, appeared to have been privately "discounted" long before war.
Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett had earlier said the 45 minute claim was of "little relevance" and used only once.
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The comments come after it was revealed last week that former UK diplomat Carne Ross had told the 2004 Butler review into Iraq intelligence that "at no time did HMG (Her Majesty's Government) assess that Iraq's WMD (weapons of mass destruction) posed a threat to the UK or its interests".
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