![]() Stay up to date with the very latest from your Birmingham or West Midlands street or neighbourhood with our Birmingham News Email Updates. ![]() "We petition the Prime Minister to petition Her Majesty to have this honour removed." "Tony Blair is the least deserving person of any public honour, particularly anything awarded by Her Majesty the Queen. The ex-Labour leader, who was in power from 1997 to 2007, was given. For this alone he should be held accountable for war crimes. More than 700,000 people have signed a petition calling for former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair to have his knighthood removed. "He was personally responsible for causing the death of countless innocent, civilian lives and servicemen in various conflicts. You can sign up for all the latest TV and Showbiz content here The petition, set up three days ago, which aims to strip the former Labour leader of his appointment, reached 500,000 signatures on Monday.Ī statement on the website said: "Tony Blair caused irreparable damage to both the constitution of the United Kingdom and to the very fabric of the nation's society. A petition calling for former British prime minister Tony Blair to be stripped of his knighthood has reached more than one million signatures as anger continues to grow over the. Angus Scott, the author of the petition, says the former prime minister. More than 400,000 signatures were left under a petition urging the UK prime minister to ask the queen to rescind the order in less than a day after it was launched. "I understand there are strong views on the Iraq war, there were back at the time and there still are, but that does not detract from the fact that Tony Blair was a very successful prime minister of this country and made a huge difference to the lives of millions of people in this country." The former UK prime minister should be held accountable for war crimes instead, it says. READ MORE Eamonn Holmes under fire from Ruth Langsford over remark on GB News debut That’s still fewer than one per cent of the UK’s population, but the number of signatures and the speed at which people have signed the online petition clearly. He said: "I don't think it's thorny at all, I think he deserves the honour, obviously I respect the fact that people have different views. A petition calling for Tony Blair to be denied the knighthood he has been given in the New Year Honours list has received more than half a million signatures in two days. Speaking on Good Morning Britain, the Labour leader said that it was not a "thorny" issue and that Sir Tony should keep his knighthood. LONDON By tradition, former British prime ministers are honored by Queen Elizabeth some years after leaving 10 Downing Street, so the elevation of Tony Blair to a knighthood on New Year’s Day could have been a routine event. An online public petition calling on the government to push the queen to rescind the honor has accrued over 550,000 signatures. Sir Keir Starmer has come out in support of Tony Blair after a petition to strip him of his knighthood reached 500,000 signatures on Monday. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures.
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