{"id":254683,"date":"2016-07-08T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/petition-collects-signatures-to-expel-tony-blair-from-labour-party\/"},"modified":"2016-07-08T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:21:52","slug":"petition-collects-signatures-to-expel-tony-blair-from-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/petition-collects-signatures-to-expel-tony-blair-from-labour-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition collects signatures to \u2018expel Tony Blair from Labour Party\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"96\">\n<p><strong>A petition calling for former British prime minister Tony Blair to be expelled from the Labour Party is receiving a flurry of signatures following the publication of a damning report on Britain\u2019s role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chilcot Inquiry released its long-delayed 2.6 million-word report on Wednesday, offering a scathing critique of the UK government\u2019s involvement, under Blair, in and after the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The report concluded that military action was \u201cnot a last resort\u201d and that the UK chose to go to war before the peaceful options had been exhausted. It also revealed that the war was unleashed on the basis of \u201cflawed\u201d intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Blair defended his decision to join the war, insisting it was taken \u201cout of good motives\u201d and that he believed the world was a better place now that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The former Labour leader also insisted that he did not mislead the public over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/08\/474158\/Petition-expel-Tony-Blair-Labour-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petition calling for former British prime minister Tony Blair to be expelled from the Labour Party is receiving a flurry of signatures following the publication of a damning report on Britain\u2019s role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. The Chilcot Inquiry released its long-delayed 2.6 million-word report on Wednesday, offering a scathing critique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}