He told MPs that indulgence had to end and that turning back was not only dangerous but would be a victory for Saddam Hussein.
Earlier two more Government ministers resigned, but neither were Clare Short, who wrote to all her colleagues today to explain why she was backing a Prime Minister she called 'reckless' only last week.
By this morning this debate was not just about war, but the authority of the Prime Minister.
Clare Short had withdrawn her resignation threat, and had written an almost penitential letter to every Labour MP explaining why she felt able to support the Prime Minister, but that didn’t stop two junior ministers resigning.
In an attempt to stem the rebellion, Tony Blair - very unusually spent most of the day at the Commons seeing individual MPs and, addressing a private meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party, before what the whips were telling MPs amounted to a vote confidence in him.
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