His much deeper and more far-reaching crime -that of turning the Labour Party from a working-class Socialist movement into a hyper-woke middle-class discussion group -will also go unpunished.

As to the war, Bush knew he needed British boots on the ground because every time the US has gone to war without our lads to do the heavy lifting, they've had their arses handed to them! And like far too many post-War British PMs, Blair let the Yanks bully him.