London, Aug 23: British Prime Minister Tony Blair returned from his summer holiday in the Caribbeans to appear before the Lord Hutton inquiry into death of weapons expert David Kelly, who was the source of a BBC report which accused his government of "sexing up" an intelligence dossier in the run-up to Iraq war. Blair's appearance before Lord Hutton on Thursday will be the second time a prime minister testifies to a judicial inquiry, after John Major, the conservative prime minister who appeared before the Scott inquiry on arms to Iraq in 1994. Blair travelled yesterday from Barbados in economy class along with wife Cherie and children. The Prime Minister drove straight from Gatwick airport to chequers, the prime minister's week-end residence, where he will be briefed by lawyers and officials from downing street, the foreign office and the Ministry of Defence.
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon will testify on Wednesday and John Scarlett, the Joint Intelligence Committee Chief who assembled Britain's dossier on Iraqi weapons appears on Tuesday. Bureau Report