Costs of Iraq War Revealed

10.09.04am UTC (GMT +0000) Fri 10th Mar 2006

USA President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair

Lynne Featherstone, Lib Dem MP for Hornsey and Wood Green has obtained from Tony Blair's government the most up to date figures on the cost of the Iraq war.

In a reply to a parliamentary question from Lynne Featherstone MP, the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defence has admitted that the first three years of the Iraq war have cost a staggering £2.8 million per day, with a total cost to April 2005 of over £3,000 million.

These figures do not include the costs of rebuilding or dealing with the aftermath from the war.

Lynne Featherstone MP for Hornsey & Wood Green said:

"This huge sum of money makes a mockery of Gordon Brown's claims to be the 'prudent Chancellor'. By supporting an unjust and illegal war, he and Tony Blair have wasted billions which could have been better spent on modernising police stations, building new schools and hospitals or more key worker housing - stuff we need.

"The decision to go to war was made by a Tony Blair and George Bush. It's clear that it was a decision made on incomplete information and with no plan for peace. Liberal Democrats said it then, and we have been proven right every step of the way."