Hodge says Iraq was Blair's "mistake"

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A government minister was quoted on Friday as saying the Iraq war was Prime Minister Tony Blair's "big mistake in foreign affairs", in a potential new embarrassment for the Labour government.

Margaret Hodge, minister for industry, also accused Blair of "moral imperialism" -- trying to impose British values and ideas on other countries, said The Islington Tribune, a north London local newspaper.

It said she made the comments at a private dinner with The Fabian Society think-tank, attended by the newspaper's editor.

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The Islington Tribune quoted Hodge as saying she had doubts in 1998 about Blair's attitude to foreign affairs because he had espoused "moral imperialism".

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