Lib-Dems demand to see Blair evidence

Tony Blair will today face a demand from the Liberal Democrats to publish all the evidence on which he took Britain into war.

The Lib-Dems will use their Brighton conference to press home their opposition to the conflict in Iraq. And they will urge America to send British detainees at Camp Delta back for trial in the UK.

The party's foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell will call for the publication, in full, of the legal opinion provided by Attorney General Lord Goldsmith, together with all of the evidence he saw in reaching his decision.

Lord Goldsmith advised the Prime Minister that the war was lawful. The Lib-Dems will seize on doubts

raised in the Hutton Inquiry over the key September dossier on Iraq's weapons.

Lib-Dem leader Charles Kennedy believes public scepticism about the war was the key factor in the Lib-Dems' dramatic by-election victory over Labour in Brent East last week. An opinion poll yesterday showed that for the first time, a majority of the public now believes the war was unjustified.