By William Lowther In Washington and Glen Owen for The Mail on Sunday
- Damning White House memo, from secretary of state Colin Powell to president George Bush, was written on March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s famous summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas
- In the bombshell document, headed ‘Secret… Memorandum for the president’, Powell tells Bush that Blair ‘will be with us’ on military action
- It adds that Blair was preparing to act as spin doctor for Bush, who was told ‘the UK will follow our lead’
- New light was shed on Bush-Blair relations by material disclosed by Hillary Clinton at the order of the U.S. courts