THIS Government must be the most scrutinised in British history. Thanks to the reports from Lords Butler and Hutton, we are privy to the innermost workings of Tony's Blair's administration.

According to some interpretations, such detailed examinations have undermined the Government and Mr Blair.

However, the fact that the Prime Minister has endured so much scrutiny and has survived with his reputation and leadership largely intact, demonstrates a redoubtable resilience.

Surely, there is no scope or desire for further inquiries. The public has had an overdose of information and how and why we came to be engaged in war against Saddam Hussein.

Criticisms of how intelligence was gathered and how it was used by Mr Blair will persist.

But Saddam Hussein was not a problem of Mr Blair's making. He was faced with making a judgement on how best to deal with Saddam.

We expect, indeed we elect Prime Ministers to make decisions of such enormity. And the Butler and Hutton reports conclude that Mr Blair arrived at that decision in good faith and with the best of intentions.

Iraq will not disappear as a political issue. As long as there are no signs of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and as long as Iraq remains in a state of chaos, it is an issue that will haunt Mr Blair.

But ultimately for his judgements on Iraq, he will be held to account not by the chairmen of public inquiries, but quite properly by the people of Britain at the next General Election.