Omand: 45-minute claim 'a bit of colour'

Including the 45-minute claim in an intelligence dossier on Iraq's weapons was "asking for trouble", Tony Blair's former security coordinator has said.

Sir David Omand told the Iraq inquiry that the claim that Saddam Hussein could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes was included to add "local colour" to the Government's dossier of September 2002.