[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Hugh

It wasn’t that simple - Iain Duncan Smith strongly supported it, because of his links to US neo-Cons, and dragged the Party along with him.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...acked-the-war/

I thought that before going to war, the Government of the day shared all the information from the intelligence services with the Leader of the Opposition. From what I recall Blair was given intelligence that Iraq had WMD and this was shared with the Opposition.

It is a separate discussion whether Blair should have challenged it, requesting verification, etc.