Miliband: Action against Saddam vital to UN's authority

The UN’s authority would have been “severely dented” if Britain and the US had not followed through threats to Saddam Hussein with military action, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said today.

Mr Miliband told the Chilcot Inquiry he voted for the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 because Saddam’s defiance of the UN posed a danger to global peace and security.