Poll finds Blair dishonest over Iraqi weapons

In the ICM survey published in the right-of-centre Daily Mail newspaper, 59 percent said Blair was dishonest about Saddam Hussein's alleged stocks of WMD, with 36 percent saying he told the truth.

Some 61 percent said they did not trust Blair, with 36 percent saying they did trust him.

Blair had argued that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction made the Iraqi leader an immediate threat and that he had to be removed, but no such weapons have been found in the 15 months since Baghdad fell.

On July 14, an official report into pre-war intelligence on Iraq's WMDs concluded that Britain's spy agencies got their facts badly wrong over the danger posed by Saddam.

However the inquiry, led by former top civil servant Lord Robin Butler, characterised any failings as institutional and absolved Blair and his government of deliberate wrongdoing.

ICM polled 1,008 people from Wednesday to Friday.