The mothers accused Blair of causing “untold misery while making himself a multi-millionaire at the same time”. We are all struggling to understand how a man who has caused so much worldwide upset and devastation could be given such a privileged award”, the letter reads. “It makes a mockery of our children’s lives, and we are struggling to cope. In the open letter, the women noted that “as mums”, they were “destroyed by the loss” of their children “at war”, and that now they are “further devastated to learn that the man responsible for sending them to their deaths is to receive the highest honour in the land”.
Last week, Blair, who served as prime minister from 1997-2007, was appointed Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year Honours List, which recognised the achievements and service of notable people across the UK. Mothers urge Queen to rescind Blair’s KnighthoodĪs for the mothers’ call to Prime Minister Johnson to unlock all state secrets regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it comes after they wrote to their “beloved” Queen urging her to strip Tony Blair of his knighthood. Gentle was referring to a previous report by the Daily Mail concerning a senior aide to Blair’s Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, who was ordered to burn a Downing Street memo warning that the 2003 invasion of Iraq could be illegal.Īccording to the newspaper, this was revealed in Hoon’s recently published memoir “See How They Run”, which also asserted that he had decided to lock the memo up in a safe at the Ministry of Defence. The truth needs to come out now and the only thing that should be locked up is Blair”, she added. It’s time for Boris Johnson to step up and unlock the secrets of these terrible wars and atone for the hundreds and hundreds of unnecessary deaths and suffering. “Blair belongs in the dock for what he has done and now his own defence secretary has confirmed it. Gentle was cited by the Daily Mail as saying that she has fought “so hard to get at the truth all these years”, but that she “has been blocked at every corner”. The legal bid is being led by Rose Gentle, supported by five more mothers, including Carol Valentine, Hazel Hunt, Caroline Whitaker, Caroline Jane Munday-Baker, and Helen Perry.
An online petition to block Blair’s knighthood has already topped 700,000 signatures.Ī group of UK mothers, who lost their soldier sons during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to release all secret documents pertaining to these conflicts that occurred when Tony Blair was at the helm of the government. The call comes amid a public uproar caused by last week’s news that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had been knighted by the Queen in the New Year Honours List.
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