Handcuff Blair and put in jail over the Iraq war, says Tim Roth: Actor tells of 'contempt' for former PM ahead of new drama where he portrays father of a dead serviceman
- Actor Tim Roth has called for former Prime Minister Tony Blair to be jailed
- He said he should be put in 'Wormwood Scrubs' for his role in the Iraq War
- Roth was speaking ahead of the airing of Reg, about a serviceman's father
- The film follows Tom Key's father's campaign against Blair's war decision
Actor Tim Roth (pictured) says Tony Blair should be jailed for his role in the Iraq War
He has starred in plenty of Hollywood crime dramas.
But ahead of his new BBC film, actor Tim Roth has called for former Prime Minister Tony Blair to be thrown in jail.
Roth, 55, plays Reg Keys in a BBC One biopic about the anti-war campaigner, whose son Tom was one of the 179 British serviceman to be killed during the Iraq War.
Speaking ahead of the airing of Reg next week, Roth said: ‘I’ve always felt that Blair should be hauled off in handcuffs and put in Wormwood Scrubs, I think that’s where he belongs.
‘I have very low expectations of Tony Blair. I think he’s profited from the death of Reg’s son and the Iraq War. I have nothing but contempt for him.’
In the film, Roth, famed for his roles in Quentin Tarantino gangster movies Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, recreates Mr Key’s dogged campaign against the former Prime Minister’s decision to send British troops to join the US in toppling Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Mr Key’s son was one of six Royal Military Police officers murdered in Al Majar, Iraq in June 2003.
Deeply suspicious of the legitimacy of the Blair government’s intervention in Iraq, Mr Key’s campaigning resulted in him standing against Mr Blair as an independent candidate in the former Prime Minister’s Sedgefield constituency in the 2005 general election.
Roth criticised Mr Blair for his refusal to apologise to the bereaved relatives of dead and injured servicemen who were involved in the Iraq War
He said: ‘I would like to think he will see this film, I would like think he could find within himself some sort of guilt and recognition that would help him find the words to make some kind of apology.
‘On a personal level, if it was my boy, I would want an apology, but I don’t see it coming.
‘If a handshake or a moment of recognition did come, I would put money on it being in front of a camera, it would have nothing to do with privacy or dignity at all.’
Roth criticised Blair for his refusal to apologise to the bereaved relatives of dead and injured servicemen
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