Chilcot report: Blair rushed ill-prepared troops to war with no imminent threat

The long-awaited official report into Britain's involvement in the Iraq War has delivered a scathing verdict on UK government ministers' justification, planning and conduct of a military intervention which "went badly wrong, with consequences to this day".

The inquiry panel agreed unanimously that, while military action in Iraq "might have been necessary at some point", at the time the invasion was launched, there was "no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein", "the strategy of containment could have been adapted and continued for some time" and "the majority of the Security Council supported continuing UN inspections and monitoring".