'Britain should not support US unconditionally'

"Tony Blair must realise that, yes, all British prime ministers give their support to the United States as a general principle. But it must not be unconditional support," former minister Malcolm Rifkind told BBC radio.

"If he has reservations and concerns about United States policy, of course he will express these privately and in a friendly way. But sometimes these concerns have to be made public.

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"That is what Mrs Thatcher believed. That is what Jim Callaghan, Harold Wilson believed -- all prime ministers of various political complexions," Rifkind said.