Blair to host Comical Ali Awards

Britain's involvement in the invasion of Iraq is to be defended by the prime minister, in the first of three speeches on foreign policy.



He will restate his conviction that the UK faces threats and must prevent terrorism, not merely react to it.

He is expected to criticise sections of the media Blair will accuse them of "a superficial deal with extremism" and say such behaviour must "be confronted and uprooted".


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