It is, however, very clear from the Chilcot report that Tony Blair did not lie, did not falsify intelligence and that the Cabinet was not misled on the presentation of the legal advice.
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The Iraq War was illegal, according to Lord Prescott, the deputy prime minister at the time of the 2003 invasion.
“We forget the 244 labor MPs voted for the war”.
A public rally calling for Tony Blair to face a “war crimes” trial has been organised by a Belfast city councillor Matt Collins. But although his father, Leo Blair, had been a non-believer, his mother, Hazel, to whom he was close, was “religious though not church-going”. “Now that’s a bit like contempt of court, it’s the same sort of thing”.
But he said: ‘If you look just at the debate alone, on five different grounds the House was misled, ‘ he said.
Asked about the potential vote, Corbyn said he would probably back the motion.
The Labour peer praised Jeremy Corbyn for apologising for the war on behalf of the Labour party, while offering his own “fullest apology” to the families of the military personnel who died.
If approved by Speaker John Bercow this week the issue could be put to a vote before the Commons goes on summer recess – potentially leading to Mr Blair being ejected from the prestigious circle of senior politician.
Meanwhile, Mr Blair’s former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott said that he now believes the US-led invasion of Iraq was illegal.
“He might have done one of those accidentally, but five?” questioned Davies. They were reportedly allowed to see the Chilcot Report before it was unveiled. And in a special interview, Mehdi Hasan speaks to Iraq’s first post-war defence minister, Ali Allawi.
Critics of ex-PM Tony Blair are lining up to offer ways to punish him for taking the United Kingdom into the Iraq War, after Sir John Chilcot released his damning report on the conflict last week. “We have seen that Iraq itself as a state was the target of the invasion”, Sheikh said.
TONY Blair’s decision to take Britain to war in Iraq has been condemned as “disastrous” by Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron in the wake of the Chilcot report, published yesterday.
He cited the infamous case of government minister John Profumo, who was held in contempt for lying to parliament after he had an affair with a 19-year-old women in 1963.
Writing in the Guardian on Monday, energy journalist Greg Muttitt and legal academic David Whyte argued: “Under the Hague and Geneva rules, occupying powers are prohibited from fundamentally transforming the economy and political system of a country”.
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Although a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency found no evidence of the revival of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq as of February 2003, the Bush administration pushed on with its military plan to invade Iraq one month later, asserting Saddam Hussein secretly developing and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
