Davis said: “It’s a bit like contempt of court, essentially by deceit. If you look just at the debate alone, on five different grounds the house was misled – three in terms of the weapons of mass destruction, one in terms of the way the UN votes were going, and one in terms of the threat, the risks. He might have done one of those accidentally, but five?”
Salmond said he believed Corbyn’s backing would mean the motion had enough cross-party support. “No parliament worth its salt tolerates being misled,” Scotland’s former first minister told ITV’s Peston on Sunday.
“It’s important it’s not seen as a party political matter when having MPs from six different parties makes it a cross-party Parliamentary matter.”
He said Blair’s promise to George Bush that he would be “with you, whatever” meant Blair had been “saying one thing to George W Bush in private, and a totally different thing to parliament and people in public”.
Blair’s actions were “a parliamentary crime, and it’s time for parliament to deliver the verdict,” Salmond said.“I hope as the arguments are unfolded, particularly in the debate on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, then we will build the majority to hold Tony Blair in contempt of Parliament, to summon him before the Bar of the House of Commons and then to deal with it in whatever way a Parliamentary committee judges to be proper.”
