Calls for Iraq inquiry as troops withdraw (UK)

Campaigners and opposition MPs said a public investigation into the legitimacy of the invasion and the subsequent failures in nation building could not be delayed any longer.

They spoke out after a final memorial parade in Basra in which the names of each of the 179 servicemen and women killed during the conflict were read out before control of southern Iraq was handed over to an American commander.

David Cameron, the Tory leader, called for an immediate inquiry similar to that carried out by Lord Franks following the Falklands War in 1982.