Gordon Brown obliquely charges Tony Blair

This is a pretty big indictment of Blair.

Gordon Brown has promised to prevent the "party political" use of intelligence material so that he would never repeat Tony Blair's mistake in taking Britain to war on a flawed prospectus.....

Mr Brown said he had already begun discussions with Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, to ensure security and intelligence material was collected "free of the party political process" and was " fully verified" if it was to be made public. "That is learning the lessons from things that happened in the past, and we should make sure that we can do things better in the future," he said.

It should be noted though, that "Mr Brown rejected growing demands for an immediate inquiry into the mistakes made before and since the invasion...."

("The Chancellor, who heard nine mortar shells land near by during his Baghdad visit....")