In the UK, a senior judge has said that the Blair government was "driven to scrape the bottom of the legal barrel" to justify its invasion of Iraq:

Speaking at a Justice debate after his election as Lord Alexander's successor, Lord Steyn said: "After the recent dreadful bombings in London we were asked to believe that the Iraq war did not make London and the world a more dangerous place. Surely, on top of everything else, we do not have to listen to a fairy tale."