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The Hutton Inquiry begins tomorrow morning.
Today, figures have been published, showing the results of a poll that for the first time on seven or more years, have the Tories leadering Labour in popularity.
34 percent of those questioned, believe Tony should resign, and the media seems to be lining up against him..
A senior BBC journalist was told that Tony Blair was "involved" in sending the September Iraq dossier back to the Joint Intelligence Committee to harden up its content. The source of the report is understood not to have been Dr. David Kelly.
The likely existence of an additional intelligence source for the BBC's reports on the disputed Iraq weapons dossier is somewhat convenient.. coming as the Government fights a rearguard action to regain public trust on the eve of the Hutton inquiry.
Andrew Gilligan, the defence correspondent whose 29 May report on Radio 4's Today programme sparked the BBC's ongoing row with Alastair Campbell, Downing Street's director of communications, is to give evidence on Tuesday. He will be followed by Susan Watts, the BBC's science correspondent who has kept a tape recording of her conversation with Dr Kelly, in which he is said to mention Mr Campbell, and special correspondent Gavin Hewitt... News that a fourth BBC journalist, the diplomatic correspondent Barnaby Mason, had direct contact with a source who underlined the intelligence community's concerns about the Government's use of information on Iraq's alleged WMD programme in the run-up to war strengthens the corporation's hand.
Now.. while all this is going to be going on for quite a while, and quite a number of hands are going to be slapped, the fact remains a man who had, for his entire life, put his trust in his government and his employers, has been removed from the scene, and there are many who still think of the 'dark actors' Dr. Kelly referred to..