Quote Originally Posted by the leader View Post
Although you might want to have another look at how many Tory MPs there were during this time of a large labour majority To say the Torys 'backed the war' is a little disingenuous. If every Tory had voted against it would still have carried.
No it wouldn't.

139 Tories voted for the war - and the motion was carried with a majority of 263. If they had voted the other way it wouldn't have carried.

http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/List_of...d_for_Iraq_War

244 Labour MPs voted for the war - 174 voted against

139 Tory MPs voted for the war - 26 voted against