Sixty-six per cent of British voters think Prime Minister Tony Blair misled them over the case for war in Iraq, a survey in the Daily Mirror newspaper said on Monday.

Twenty-seven per cent of the 1,012 adults questioned between July 10 and 12 in the ICM Research poll said Blair knowingly misled the people. But 39 per cent gave him the benefit of doubt, saying he gave wrong information unwittingly.

Thirty-five per cent said their confidence in the prime minister had decreased after the war.

The dissatisfaction does not appear to have seriously dented the ruling Labour Party's chances of winning the next general election, due by mid-2006 at the latest.

Twenty-two per cent of the respondents said they would vote Labour against just 14 per cent for the Conservative Party and eight per cent for the Liberal Democrats.

But 30 per cent did not disclose a voting intention and 19 per cent said they wouldn't bother to vote.

Agencies