Kennedy went to on to become the most senior opponent at Westminster of the Iraq war as he forged a position to the left of New Labour. In his speech in the Iraq debate in March 2003, in which MPs approved military action, Kennedy said: “Before launching an almighty assault upon Iraq, is it not better to pursue the course of disarmament on the ground in the presence of weapons inspectors? No matter how sophisticated modern technology, even compared with at the time of the last Gulf war, is it not more precise to have weapons dismantled in the presence of inspectors rather than so-called precision bombing trying to take them out?”

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