"Nothing has changed over the past few weeks," Blair said in his first comments on Iraq since returning from his summer vacation. "Nothing has changed and my views have not changed one jot or iota.
"The issue of weapons of mass destruction is an issue where the world cannot stand by and allow Iraq to be in flagrant breach of all the United Nations resolutions," Blair said.
Blair has cast himself as one of Bush's closest international allies since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, but he is likely to face stiff opposition at home if he joins a US invasion of Iraq.
Lord Healey, a former Labor Party deputy leader, warned that doing so could cost Blair his position as party leader -- and thus his job as prime minister.
``I don't think he could survive overwhelming public and party opposition to British support for an American attack,'' Healey told the BBC. ``And I think if we didn't support an attack it is very unlikely Bush would carry it out.''
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