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Jeremy Corbyn says Tony Blair should be tried for war crimes.

In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis, the Labour leadership front runner said Blair and others who made decisions that led to what he described as an “illegal war” in Iraq, should “deal with the consequences.”

Maitlis noted that many of Corbyn’s supporters felt strongly that Blair should be tried, and asked if he agreed.

Corbyn said: "I think there are some decisions that Tony Blair has to confess. He needs to tell us what happened.

"What happened in Crawford, Texas in 2002 in his private meetings with George Bush?

"Why has the Chilcott report still not come out - because apparently there’s still debate about the release of information on one side or the other of the Atlantic.

"And at that point Tony Blair and the others that made the decisions are going to have to deal with the consequences of it.

Pressed on whether he thought Blair should be tried for war crimes, Corbyn answered: “If he’s committed a war crime, yes. Everyone who’s committed a war crime should be.”

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Maitlis pressed further, asking if Corbyn thought he had committed a war crime.

He replied: "I think it was an illegal war. I’m confident about that, indeed [former UN Secretary General] Kofi Annan confirmed it was an illegal war and therefore he has to explain to that.

"Is he going to be tried for it? I don’t know. Could he be tried for it? Possibly.

“I want to see all those who committed war crimes tried for it, and those that made the decisions that went with it.”

The veteran left-winger said he was opposed to engaging in a bombing campaign in Syria in an attempt to defeat ISIS - saying he would prefer to “isolate” them by cutting off their supply of money, arms and their ability to export oil.

He also said he’d be in favour of moving Parliament out of London - at least temporarily - and rotating it through the regions of the UK.