Tory Cabinet minister Michael Gove (pictured) has defended Mr Blair after a petition calling for his knighthood to be rescinded passed one million signatures on Friday.
Ex-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair s knighthood should be rescinded, the mother of one of the first British soldiers killed in the Iraq War has been quoted as saying.
Marion Chapman, 73, (right) said it was outrageous that the former Prime Minister had been knighted, having sent hundreds of troops to war in Iraq in 2003 without vital equipment.
Richard Burgon, who served as shadow justice secretary in Jeremy Corbyn s shadow cabinet, said the knighthood for the former Labour premier showed what is wrong with our system .