Future UK Leaders to be Careful About Their Actions After Chilcot Report

Future British prime ministers will be more careful about their decisions to participate in military actions after the Chilcot report on the Iraq war revelations, a Labour party lawmaker told Sputnik Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, the UK government released an report by Sir John Chilcot devoted to the UK role in the 2003 Iraq War. Blair has been criticized for the United Kingdom's involvement in the conflict that stretched through 2011. 

"I think the prime ministers in the future would be much more careful about taking decisions which involve the United Kingdom participation in military action," Roger Godsiff said.

The inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War by Sir John Chilcot, revealed earlier on Wednesday, found that the UK government based its decision to deploy British troops to Iraq on flawed assessments and underestimated the consequences of the invasion.

According to Godsiff, the Iraq war led to destabilization in Libya, Syria and Iraq.

"The chaos that exists not just in Iraq at the moment, but in Libya and in Syria is directly attributable to the destabilization of North Africa which began with the invasion of Iraq," Godsiff said.

The United Kingdom was part of a US-led coalition, which also included Australia and Poland, that invaded Iraq in 2003, without a UN mandate, after accusing then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of possessing weapons of mass destruction, which were never found.