PM (Blair) 'approved Kelly strategy'

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Tony Blair agreed the strategy that led to the eventual "outing" of David Kelly as Andrew Gilligan's source, the Ministry of Defence's top civil servant told the Hutton inquiry today.
Sir Kevin Tebbit, the MoD's permanent under-secretary, described how it was conveyed to him that the prime minister wanted "something done about this individual coming forward".

That individual was Dr Kelly, who admitted having spoken to Gilligan, the Today programme defence correspondent, whose report claiming that No 10 had "sexed up" the dossier on Iraq's weapons programme sparked the bitter battle between the government and the BBC.

Sir Kevin said: "I was told by Sir David Omand that the prime minister was following this very, very closely indeed ...

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