Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, who is also a member of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said the Government should demand an urgent explanation.

''If the Israeli government was party to behaviour of this kind it would be a serious violation of trust between nations,'' he said.

''If legitimate British passport holders were put at risk it would be a disgrace.

''Given the current speculation, the Israeli government has some explaining to do and the ambassador should be summoned to the Foreign Office to do so in double-quick time.''

His call came after Tory MP Hugo Swire, chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council, demanded a ''full investigation''.

A SENIOR Welsh MP said last night he knew “for certain” Tony Blair and George Bush struck a deal to invade Iraq at their notorious Crawford Ranch meeting in 2002 – a year before war was declared.

Elfyn Llwyd, Plaid Cymru’s parliamentary leader, said he had seen a confidential memo to that effect, although he would not divulge its exact contents.

Critics of the military action in Iraq have long suspected Mr Blair and President Bush came to an agreement at the president’s ranch in Crawford, Texas in April 2002, a claim Mr Blair denied in evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry last week.

Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported.

A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who chaired the inquiry into Dr Kelly's death, means medical records including the post-mortem report will remain classified until after all those with a direct interest in the case are dead, the Mail on Sunday reported.

And a 30-year secrecy order has been placed on written records provided to Lord Hutton's inquiry which were not produced in evidence.

Finally I have indisputable documentary evidence that the British government had a positive policy of using intelligence from torture in the War on Terror, and that the policy was personally directed by Jack Straw.

Here are the minutes of the meeting at which I was told this:

As the political furore over the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi engulfs three countries in bitter recriminations, The Mail on Sunday can now reveal the new and compelling evidence which he says would have proved his innocence.

In a submission to the Court of Appeal running to thousands of words, Megrahi’s lawyers list 20 grounds of appeal which include:

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi yesterday dragged the Queen, Prince Andrew and Gordon Brown into the row over the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

He thanked all of them for "encouraging" the Scottish government to free terminallyill Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.

Former MP Tam Dalyell has claimed former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher turned a blind eye to exploring the possible truth of the fall of Pan Am 103 in favour of "blind obedience" to US wishes.

His revelations came in a newspaper column in which he recollects meeting Thatcher for the first time in 13 years at a diplomatic dinner, at which they discussed her memoirs.

"The last thing that Washington wants is the truth to emerge about the role of the US in the crime of Lockerbie," Dalyell said