The ex labour leader was handed one of the country’s most senior titles Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, in the Queen’s New Year’s Honour List. It added that the cabinet’s decision to invade was made in circumstances that were ‘far from satisfactory’. The decision to Knight former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been met with outrage, with ten of thousands signing a petition to strip him of the award. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s knighthood to be rescinded over his role in the Iraq war. In contrast to Sir Keir Starmer, who said Blair deserves the honour, one Labour MP, speaking. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures Health & Wellness On LONDON By tradition, former British prime ministers are honored by Queen Elizabeth some years after leaving 10 Downing Street, so the elevation of Tony Blair to a knighthood on New Year’s Day could have been a routine event. Furious soldiers and the relatives of those killed in Iraq are reported to be ready to send their medals back in disgust.
Published in July 2016, the report found Hussein posed ‘no imminent threat’ at the time of the invasion and that the war was fought on the basis of ‘flawed’ intelligence. Over a million people have now signed a petition calling for the award of a knighthood to Tony Blair to be revoked. The inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot found the former Labour leader overplayed the ‘flawed’ intelligence about the dictator’s weaponry and ignored peaceful means to resolve the issue. The 2016 Chilcot Inquiry found the invasion of Iraq began on the basis of intelligence which was ‘presented with a certainty that was not justified’ and before diplomatic options had been exhausted.Īs he built the case for military action against Saddam Hussein’s regime, Blair said there appeared to be evidence mounting of weapons of mass destruction that could be used within 45 minutes. More than 600,000 people have signed an online petition asking that the honor be rescinded, illustrating how one of Britain’s most successful politicians remains a divisive figure, never forgiven by his critics for taking the country to war in Iraq. In 2017, a third of Britons said Blair should be tried as a war criminal for “knowingly misleading” the public about the premise of the invasion of Iraq after an inquiry found that there was no intelligence to back up the claim that late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.Blair, 68, was given the highest honour that can be handed out by the Queen (Picture: Getty Images)Īnd by Monday evening, half a million people had backed the call for him not to become a sir, making it one of the most popular ever on the site . Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures The New York Times. While it’s customary for British monarchs to confer most senior knighthoods on former prime ministers, Buckingham Palace’s decision to not snub Blair caused massive outrage among Brits, citing Blair’s role in the 2003 invasion in Iraq and his support for the US-led campaign in Afghanistan. “For this alone he should be held accountable for war crimes,” it says. The petition specifically accuses Blair of “causing the death of countless innocent, civilian lives and servicemen” by dragging the UK into “various conflicts.” to source powerful stories and cover campaigns hundreds of times a day.
Angus Scott, the author of the petition, says the former prime minister “caused irreparable damage to the constitution of the United Kingdom and to the very fabric of the nation’s society,” while he was in power between 19. is a worldwide petition website, based in California, USA, operated by the San.
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