I hope in my heart that the prime minister one day will say sorry.

There has to be prosecutions for the failure in the chain of command for those officers who were responsible for not carrying out the ... order that all patrols should carry a satellite phone and should have 150 rounds of ammunition.

I will shake your hand, sir, because of your position. But this hand is stained with the blood of my son.

God and religion have nothing to do with this war.

If this war had been justified by international law I would have grieved and not campaigned,

We strongly feel that our sons were sent into a conflict not backed by international law or the United Nations,

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.