Voters pile blame on Blair
The Telegraph, July 21 2003Tony Blair has suffered huge damage to his reputation among voters as a direct result of the death of Dr David Kelly, the weapons expert, and the Government's bitter and protracted dispute with the BBC, according to a poll.
The row has also inflicted damage on the BBC after it admitted yesterday that the scientist had been the main source for its story claiming that the Government had "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destrustion.
Dr Kelly's MP, Robert Jackson, called yesterday for Gavyn Davies, the BBC chairman, to resign.
The YouGov survey for The Telegraph, conducted after Dr Kelly's death had been confirmed, found that almost as many voters believe Mr Blair should resign (39 per cent) as think he should stay on as Prime Minister (41 per cent).
Equally damaging for Mr Blair is that 59 per cent of voters said their opinion of him had gone down since the Dr Kelly affair.
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Comment: Also, 71% say the judicial inquiry should examine the use of intelligence used for the Iraq war (19% not), 64% say the UK government didn't give "accurate information" before the war, (23% say it did).
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