Despite senior judge Lord Hutton's inquiry rapping the BBC for a faulty story on Iraqi weapons, the YouGov survey for the Daily Telegraph found that 67% of people trusted the BBC to tell the truth, compared with 31 percent who trusted the government.
A separate ICM survey for the Guardian daily found that just one in 10 had faith in Blair's administration compared with 31% who trusted the BBC.
However, almost half, 49%, trusted neither side, the ICM survey of 532 people found.
Just over a third, 38%, were satisfied with the way Blair was doing his job but 55% were dissatisfied.
Opinion on last year's US-led war in Iraq was almost equally divided, with 47% saying it was justified and 46% saying it was not.
A third poll for The Times found that despite Hutton's exoneration of him, Blair had been damaged about as much as the BBC by the Kelly affair.
Thirty-six per cent now felt less favourable towards the prime minister, and 34% less favourable to the BBC, according to the Populus survey of 500 adults.
However, more than two-thirds - 69% - said that, regardless of whether or not Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, the war was justified because it led to Saddam Husseins removal from power. – Sapa-AFP.
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