London: Britain has revoked the diplomatic immunity of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and his family and called on the autocratic leader to step down, the foreign minister said on Sunday.
William Hague also said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair has spoken to Gadhafi in the past few days, but did not disclose what was discussed.
Hague defended Blair's friendly relations with Muammar Gaddafi's regime in the past and also British trade dealings with the Libyan ruler.
He dismissed suggestions that Britain was complicit in the repression in Libya by selling it arms and trading in oil, and said it was right for Blair's government to establish commercial relations with Libya.
"It was right to be able to establish a relation... that took Libya away from pursuing weapons of mass destruction programs and the state sponsorship of international terrorism," Hague told the BBC in an interview. "If we hadn't done that we might be in a worse situation now."
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