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Jeremy Corbyn has shown support for a parliamentary motion which declares Tony Blair guilty of “contempt” over the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Conservative MP David Davis is set to table the motion which alleges the former prime minister deceived the Commons in the run-up to the war.

Mr Corbyn, who this week apologised on behalf of his party following the long-awaited release of the Chilcot report, said he backed the move.

He told the Andrew Marr Show: “I urge colleagues to read the Butler Report and the Chilcot Report about the way Parliament was denied the information it should have had, the way there was lack of preparations for the conflict’s aftermath, and the way in which assertions of weapons of mass destruction [were made],”

“Parliament must hold to account, including Tony Blair, those who took us into this particular war.

“That is surely how a parliamentary democracy works. I haven’t seen [the motion] yet, but I think I probably would [back it].”

The motion could be debated in the next few weeks providing it is approved by the Speaker.

Mr Davis told the Andrew Marr Show: “I'm going to put down a contempt motion, a motion which says that Tony Blair has held the House in contempt.

“It's a bit like contempt of court. Essentially by deceit.”

He added: “If you look just at the debate alone, on five different grounds the House was misled, three in terms of the weapons of mass destruction, one in terms of the UN votes were going, and one in terms of the threat, the risks. He might have done one of those accidentally, but five?”

On Wednesday, the Chilcot inquiry was published amid a series of delays of setbacks seven years after it was ordered by then prime minister Gordon Brown.

The report, about 2.6 million words in length, was a damning verdict on the 2003 invasion which concluded the Mr Blair’s intelligence to go to war was “not justified”.

Pressure has continued to build on Mr Blair after former deputy prime minister John Prescott declared the war was “illegal”.

Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Mr Prescott described the Chilcot report as a "damning indictment of how the Blair government handled the war”, adding he took responsibility for his “share” of the blame.