Is Blair mad – or just defending himself ahead of Chilcot report?

Former PM insists Iraq nightmare 'was always going to happen': you need help, says Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson, the Tory Mayor of London, has this morning accused Tony Blair of being “mad” and in need of "professional psychiatric help" because of his refusal to face the fact that the 2003 invasion of Iraq has led inexorably to the Isis attacks on cities across Iraq.

But is the former Labour prime minister "mad" - or is he carefully getting his defence ready for the imminent publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq war? Is it, in short, a pre-emptive strike?

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