Tony Blair: I thought Iraq invasion was the right thing to do

Tony Blair was appointed a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (Victoria Jones/PA)

Former prime minister Tony Blair has admitted he “may have been wrong” about the decision to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, but insisted he thought it was “the right thing” to do.

Speaking to the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as part of BBC Radio 4’s The Archbishop Interviews series, Mr Blair defended his decision to intervene in the Middle East alongside former US president George W Bush.