Voters think Blair misled MPs over war

Almost a quarter of voters believe Tony Blair deliberately misled MPs over the Iraq war and should face war crimes charges, a poll has revealed.

Most people also think the former Prime Minister, due to give evidence to the official inquiry into the war within weeks, knew Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, it suggested.

The YouGov survey found less than a third accepted that Mr Blair “genuinely believed in the threat” which he used to publicly justify sending UK troops while 52 per cent thought he had “deliberately misled” the country.

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And by a similar margin – 49 per cent to 31 per cent – they also said that believed his former communications director Alastair Campbell was not truthful when he gave evidence to Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry last week.

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