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Reg Keys: Blair should be held to account over Iraq

Prominent anti-Iraq-War campaigner Reg Keys Credit: ITV News

Tony Blair should be brought to account over the Iraq War after the publication of the Chilcot report, the father of a soldier killed in the Iraq War has said.

Prominent anti-Iraq-War campaigner Reg Keys, whose 20-year-old son Thomas Keys, from Bala, in Gwynedd, died in Iraq, said lawyers will now be examining whether this was an illegal war.

He said he would like to see legal action against Mr Blair and other politicians who were involved in the decision to send troops to Iraq.

Mr Keys said the "ultimate goal" would be "to hold them to account in a court of law" but "publicly they've already been judged".

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