BBC>>>Tony Blair is risking his own legacy because he is "increasingly obsessed with his place in history", Clare Short has said after quitting the cabinet. ....... "There is no real collective responsibility because there is no collective - just diktats in favour of increasingly badly thought through policy initiatives that come from on high", she continued. ......Ms Short also complained that she first learnt of the detail of a new UN resolution on rebuilding Iraq from BBC News Online, when her department is supposed to have a key role in the country's reconstruction. ...... She called the UK's position "totally dishonourable". "I cannot defend it. It is wrong in international law and for the rebuilding of Iraq and it breaches the promises that the prime minister gave to me," she told BBC News. She warned that the UK was colluding in a resolution which could perpetuate international divisions, marginalise the UN and make it more difficult to rebuild Iraq. ...... "To the prime minister, I would say that he has achieved great things since 1997," she said. "But paradoxically, he is in danger of destroying is legacy as he becomes increasingly obsessed with his place in history." She predicted Labour was entering "rockier times" when MPs would need to prevent the government departing from the party's best ..... <<<<