Former UK Attorney-General Peter Goldsmith had warned former Prime Minister Tony Blair that the planned invasion of Iraq could be illegal, according to a letter leaked to the Iraq Inquiry, confirmed by the Daily Mail on Sunday.

The Jurist notes that the July 2002 letter laid out the reasons that Goldsmith believed the Iraq invasion might be illegal, including that an invasion could not be based on 'regime change' alone. The existence of this letter will increase the difficulty for Blair to use a good-faith defence against charges that he knowingly led the country into an illegal invasion. He and Goldsmith are likely to be witnesses for the inquiry in the near future, the report says.
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