Tony Blair should be prosecuted for Iraq War, high court hears

‘Former Prime Minister Tony Blair should face prosecution for his role in the UK’s intervention in the 2003 Iraq invasion, the high court has heard.
The most senior judge in England and Wales, Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, has heard a case seeking to overturn an earlier order blocking Blair’s prosecution.
Referencing the Chilcot inquiry’s findings that the Iraq War was unnecessary, Michael Mansfield QC argued the private prosecution of Blair, along with then-Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, is now required.
As the 2 million-word Chilcot report concluded, the UK’s involvement in Iraq was based on the false pretext that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The order declaring Blair’s immunity against any charges should therefore be overturned, he said.
The order was handed down by Westminster Magistrate’s Court in November last year as it heard a request to privately prosecute the former PM.’

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