Former Cabinet secretary Lord Butler yesterday reported on "severely flawed" intelligence on Iraq but spared any individual from blame.

Most front pages focus on the facts that the long-awaited review found only collective, rather than individual, errors.

The style of Tony Blair's government was heavily criticised in the report, as was the work of MI6 and the Joint Intelligence Committee.

But while the Conservatives claimed that the prime minister had lost credibility in the eyes of voters, Blair himself appeared vindicated that his good faith had not been questioned.

The report found that the "dividing lines" between ministers and the intelligence services have narrowed, it did not find any direct attempt by Number 10 to influence the intelligence material.

Blair said it made "balanced judgments" and conceded key failings in the compilation of the now notorious September 2002 dossier.

But in a damning conclusion of the Blairite machine, the former Cabinet secretary's review expressed concern at the "informality and circumscribed character of the government's procedures" in drawing up the Iraq dossier.