Former prime minister Tony Blair has scraped claims that he used his power to suppress legal advice which could have prevented the Cabinet from okaying the Iraq War. The ex-PM’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell put down in his diaries in March 2003 that Blair barred Attorney General Lord Goldsmith from explaining fully to the ministers the realities of the Iraq War. Adversaries of the Iraq War recently accessed the spin…

Baroness Sayeeda Hussain Warsi’s allies have last night refuted allegations that she embarked on foreign trips at taxpayers’ expense and misused her position as the Conservative Party Chairman. Reports yesterday highlighted the fact that Lady Warsi had 17 foreign visits in the past two years, though her main role was to foster relations with Tories in Britain. But the Baroness’ camp asserted that the visits – which included Pakistan, Indonesia,…