Corbyn: Iraq war was 'an act of military aggression'

Jeremy Corbyn, commenting on the publication of the report in parliament, said he had only had been given access to the document at 8am this morning.

He described the Iraq war as an “act of military aggression” that had long been regarded as illegal by international legal opinion, and had “divided this house and set the government of the day against  the majority of British people and the weight of global opinion.

“By any measure the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been a catastrophe,” he said. “None of us who opposed the war should take any satisfaction [from the report]. We have to be saddened by what has been revealed and we must reflect on that.”