MS Elizabeth Wilmshurst and Sir Michael Wood confirmed at the Chilcot Inquiry what we already knew. Jack Straw MP, and Foreign Secretary at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was a leading advocate for the illegal war against Iraq.

In his own previous evidence, he asserted that the decision to go to war was one of the most difficult he had ever had to make. His legal advisers, to a man and a woman, confirmed that the action was illegal and he had a perfect opportunity to withdraw his support. But he didn’t.

I wonder whether, when he was involved in ‘persuading’ other Labour MPs to vote for the war at the time in March 2003, did he tell them that all his legal advisers had stated categorically that they were involved in supporting an illegal war? I think not. If he had, the vote would never have gone through.

The result of this was the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people.

How does Jack Straw sleep at night, or for that matter, all those who supported him, inside and outside of government?

George S Davies, Redearth Road, Darwen.