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Independent: The Sketch: Blair astonishes onlookers with a frank answer to Parliament's greybeards

The liason committee had its biannual audience with the Prime Minister
yesterday. In the dark hour before war, Mr Blair presented himself to
the grand heads of the select committees. They are Parliament's greybeards,
they've independent voices often at odds with the Government. They're
the best we've got. They were perceptibly less useless than the last time
they found themselves in the prime ministerial presence. A few posed
questions we ourselves would like to ask: "Is there any link between al-Qa'ida,
Iraq and terrorist groups in Britain?" Blair watchers were astonished when
the Prime Minister said: "No."