TWELVE months ago some UK Government representatives came to my office in Brussels to brief me on the case for war in Iraq.

I was unconvinced by what they had to say then and a year on I am even more certain that Prime Minister Tony Blair made the wrong decision in supporting George Bush.

Nowhere have I seen an answer to the central question of whether Britain went to war on a flawed prospectus nor do I understand the unwillingness of the Government to allow a sufficiently wide-ranging inquiry to consider the judgement and competence of ministers.

I was hopeful that we could concentrate on local and European issues in June's elections but judging from my postbag I suspect that the Iraq war, as in the recent Spanish elections, will dominate people's thoughts when they come to vote.

It looks increasingly as if June's elections in Yorkshire and the Humber will be a referendum on Mr Blair.

Diana Wallis MEP,

Liberal Democrat, Yorkshire and the Humber,

Land of Green Ginger,

Hull.

Updated: 11:57 Saturday, March 27, 2004