
Jeremy Corbyn will not quit as Labour leader until the Chilcot Inquiry is released claims an insider
Corbyn has been one of the most vocal opponents of the Iraq War, which cost 179 British lives and killed tens of thousands of Iraqis, and has suggested that Blair cooked up a deal with former US President George Bush before the decision to invade Iraq was officially made.
The Chilcot Inquiry report, which contains 2.6 million words, is to be released on Wednesday. The inquiry was set up by former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown in June 2009 to look into the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
It is expected to ?damage the reputations? of a number of high-ranking officials including Blair. Mr Corbyn said last year that he believed the Iraq War was an illegal one and that Mr Blair ?has to explain that?.
He said: ?We went into a war that was catastrophic, that was illegal, that cost us a lot of money, that lost a lot of lives.
The consequences are still played out with migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, refugees all over the region.?
Calls for Corbyn to quit have fallen on deaf ears, and insiders believe part of the reason may be because he is waiting for his chance to publicly condemn Blair.
A source said: ?It is believed that he won?t quit until after Chilcot.
To do so, one MP would need to present a dossier of evidence called an Article of Impeachment, that is collated by a committee of MPs. If approved by MPs it is then presented to Black Rod, a senior officer in the House of Lords, before a trial.
If convicted, Mr Blair could in theory face a prison term. The report, which is named after its chairman Sir John Chilcot, is also expected to criticise British Army commanders over equipment deficiencies when the troops were sent in.
In particular, the Ministry of Defence is likely to be criticised for the long delay in replacing the Snatch Land Rover, which was dubbed the ?coffin?, as IEDs, or bombs, could rip it apart.
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