Today's papers react to Lord Butler's report into British intelligence on Iraq.

FT

By assigning blame for this flawed intelligence to "collective responsibility", however, Lord Butler manages to avoid blaming anyone at all. While the report finds no evidence that intelligence was tailored to support already decided policy, items of evidence in its 196 pages are susceptible to a different judgment. What emerges clearly is that Iraq was an intelligence fiasco and that the "informality" of the Blair governing style is likely to produce flawed decisions.

Telegraph

Mr Blair said he took full responsibility for any criticism levelled at the intelligence community and, notably, John Scarlett, the head of the Joint Intelligence Committee who is shortly due to take over as chief of MI6. It would serve little purpose now for Mr Scarlett to step aside, nor should the morale of the intelligence services be further undermined at a time in our history when their work in countering the threat from al Qaeda is more crucial than ever. A future government may well feel it necessary to publish intelligence assessments in order better to inform the country about a decision of equal gravity. So, it is important that Mr Blair, in the coming months, demonstrates that he is serious about learning the lessons of this sorry episode.

Times

In Downing Street, Alastair Campbell, who helped to draft the dossier, has already gone. But the prime minister bears a share of responsibility for this shambles. The case for going to war was real, but he chose to focus on Saddam’s supposed possession of WMD. While Mr Blair may not have positively embellished the intelligence to make his case, he certainly deleted any doubts. He has yet to explain why he did so, but he was right yesterday to take responsibility for the errors in a controversial document. It is now time for Britain and Iraq to move on.

Independent

So many faults, so little responsibility: the age-old escape route of the establishment. Little wonder that both the prime minister and the intelligence community were so quick to accept the report's recommendations in full. If nothing else, the report shows the wisdom of both Michael Howard, the leader of the Tory party, and the Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, in refusing to take part in it.

Guardian

In the end, as with Hutton, the evidence unearthed is more telling than the conclusions. But Lord Butler has laid bare a style of government that is both unaccountable and dangerous. Mr Blair sounded unapologetic in the Commons yesterday. We can only hope that underneath the combative veneer the true message of Butler will sink in.

Sun

Arguing over whether the so-called 45-minute claim should or should not have been included in the Downing Street dossier will achieve about as much as debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It just isn’t relevant. Saddam has gone. The Iraqi people are liberated and have hope again. That is the lasting achievement of Tony Blair and George W Bush.

Mail

Sixty British servicemen and countless civilians are dead. Billions have been spent pulverising Iraq, a nation once hostile to al Qaeda but now a magnet for the world's most lethal terrorists. And this is where we must qualify our apology to Lord Butler. For despite all this, his staggering conclusion is that no one is to blame and no one should lose his job. And of course nobody - least of all Mr Blair - finds it necessary to apologise. How establishment. How very British. And how utterly disgraceful.

Express

As a former cabinet secretary who believes in collective responsibility, Lord Butler could not have been expected to blame any individuals for these serious flaws. Instead he leaves it to us to make up our own minds. And since Tony Blair has accepted full personal  responsibility for the way the issue was presented, we are justified in laying the blame at his door. 

Mirror

It is a dialogue of the deaf - between a prime minister convinced he is right and millions who think he is not being straight with them. Only one person can sort that out - Tony Blair. And he won't do it by hoping Lord Butler's report will clear his name.