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Tony Blair is coming under pressure to urge the US to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp after one of his Cabinet ministers said it should be shut down.
Peter Hain said he would prefer to see it closed and thought Mr Blair agreed.
Lib Dem leadership hopeful Sir Menzies Campbell urged Mr Blair to act on a new UN report saying aspects of the regime at the camp amounted to torture.
Mr Blair only repeated his stance that the camp was an "anomaly" that should be dealt with "sooner or later".
In the wake of the UN report, Northern Ireland Secretary Mr Hain told BBC One's Question Time: "I would prefer that it wasn't there and I would prefer it was closed."
Asked if Mr Blair agreed, Mr Hain said: "I think so, yes."
The prime minister was asked about the controversy after talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
He said: "I've said all along... that it [the camp] is an anomaly and sooner or later it's got to be dealt with."
But he did not expand on what he has previously told MPs.
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