1a. Bliar lie to Parliament, 4 June 2003:
The allegation that the 45 minute claim provoked disquiet among the intelligence community, which disagreed with its inclusion in the dossier - I have discussed it, as I said, with the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee - is also completely and totally untrue.
1b. Dr Brian Jones of DIS, in a minute dated 19 September 2002:
We have a number of questions in our minds relating to the intelligence on the military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, particularly about the times mentioned and the failure to differentiate between the two types of weapon.
2a. Bliar lie: PM's official spokesman, 22 July 2003:
(the case of Dr Kelly was) ...handled in accordance with MoD procedures and had been overseen by those at the top of the MoD in view of the fact that it had been the lead department.
2b. Bliar giving evidence to Hutton:
(in answer to a question whether procedures existed for such cases): No. Obviously, you know, this was, as I say, a very unusual set of circumstances. (note: Downing Street took the key decision with regard to the Dr Kelly affair)
3a. Bliar lie: to Parliament in response to Abu Ghraib, 12 May 2004:
It is not correct that ministers or I were aware of these allegations in respect of American Troops. The ICRC report was not passed to us.
3b. Parliamentary answer by Jack Straw, 16 June 2004:
The President of the ICRC, Dr Kellenberger, did mention briefly to my honourable friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in their meeting of 18 March that the February ICRC report contained allegations concerning treatment of detainees by forces other than UK forces.
4. Bliar's CV submitted in his bid to become Labour candidate for Sedgefield in 1983 claimed that he had "written for" the
Guardian. His biographer John Rentoul states that "no published article can be found".
5a. Bliar, claiming to have stowed away on a flight to Barbados as a youth, to Des O'Connor in 1998:
(I) ..snuck on to the plane, and we were literally about to take off when the stewardess came up to me and said: "I don't think I actually saw your boarding pass".
5b. Bliar's father Leo:
The Bahamas? Who said that? Tony? Never. It's news to me.
5c. Newcastle Airport spokeswoman:
In our 61 year history we never had any flights to the Bahamas from here.
6a. Bliar lie: Appearing on
Question Time speaking about the fox-hunting ban in 1999:
We had one try at it last season - people like myself voted in favour of banning fox-hunting. I voted for it.
6b. Bliar did not participate in this vote.
7a. Bliar lie: Paxman, asking about Labour accepting money from pornographer Richard Desmond, 16 May 2002:
They also own Horny Housewives, Mega Boobs, Posh Wives, Skinny & Wriggly. Do you know what these magazines are like?
7b. Bliar lying to Paxman:
7c. Columnist for the
Times Anthony Howard describes how the late Tony Bevins, political editor of the
Daily Express, had a coincidental encounter with Bliar shortly after resigning from the paper in protest at Desmond's purchase:
Blair asked him why he was going. Bevins told me that, by way of reply, he simply took out from his briefcase some of the more lurid of the Desmond titles and threw them down in front of the Prime Minister - who, to be fair, shuddered and averted his gaze.