Lord Prescott has accused Tony Blair of illegally leading the UK into the Iraq War.

His comments condemning Mr Blair's decision to take part in the Iraq War, a decision he supported at the time in his role as deputy prime minister, come just days after the publication of the long-awaited Iraq Inquiry report by Sir John Chilcot.

Writing in his Sunday Mirror column, the peer said: "I will live with the decision of going to war and its catastrophic consequences for the rest of my life.

"In 2004, the UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said that as regime change was the prime aim of the Iraq War, it was illegal.

"With great sadness and anger, I now believe him to be right."