Tony Blair allied with George Bush months before war

Eight months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, then British prime minister, Tony Blair, told then US president, George W Bush, “I will be with you, whatever”.

He relied on flawed intelligence and legal advice to go to war, a seven-year inquiry has concluded.

It criticised Blair on a range of issues, saying the threat posed by Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction had been over-hyped and the planning for the aftermath of the war had been inadequate.