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Actor Tim Roth has said Tony Blair should be in jail and he hopes his new drama forces him to apologise over Iraq.

The BBC’s Reg, out next month, is about anti-war campaigner Reg Keys, whose serviceman son Tom was killed in the conflict.

Reservoir Dogs star Roth, 55, plays Reg and said: “I’ve always felt Blair should be hauled off in handcuffs and put in Wormwood Scrubs. I think he’s profited from the death of Reg’s son and the Iraq war. I have nothing but contempt for him.

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“I’d like to think he’ll see this film, find some sort of guilt and recognition that would help him make some kind of apology.” Reg is a founder member of Military Families Against the War.

His Lance Corporal son was one of six Red Caps killed by a 400-strong mob in Majar al-Kabir in June 2003. At 20, he was the youngest.