Furious Labour delegates walk out of Jeremy Corbyn’s conference speech after his platform apology for the Iraq War
The party leader received a thunderous applause when he claimed the “refugee crisis” was “fuelled by wars across the Middle East"
A PLATFORM apology for the war in Iraq by Jeremy Corbyn prompted a walk out by a dozen furious Labour delegates today.
Former Tony Blair aide John McTernan led the protest exodus after Mr Corbyn said: "it was right to apologise on behalf of the party for the Iraq war, right to say that we have learned the lessons”.
The longstanding critic of the 2003 invasion added that it was also “right to say that such a catastrophe must never be allowed to happen again."
Mr McTernan who worked in Downing Street at the time of the war, stormed out of the conference hall, shaking his head.
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He confirmed tonight that he had left “in disgust.”
Mr Corbyn told his faithful supporters in Liverpool that “the Chilcot report made absolutely clear, the lessons to be learned from the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq.”
He received a thunderous applause when he claimed the “refugee crisis” was “fuelled by wars across the Middle East."
He added: “We have to face the role that repeated military interventions by British governments have played in that crisis.”
The anger came after Mr Corbyn backed vexatious investigations into the Army.
After telling the BBC the UK should no longer have a “huge land-based defence force” he added that “there has to be investigation” into British troops who served in Iraq.
Tonight the Tory party chairman Patrick McLoughlin said: “This Conference has shown Labour are too divided, distracted and incompetent to build a country that works for everyone.”
