Following the release by a cross party group of MPs of the text of the motion for the Prime Minister’s impeachment, Plaid Cymru the Party of Wales has announced the dates for a series of meetings highlighting the case for impeachment. The launch of the Impeach Blair Tour will be in Cardiff on Friday.

The meeting (City Hall, Cardiff, 7 p.m. Friday 12 November) will be chaired by Party President Dafydd Iwan, who will be joined by Jill Evans MEP and Adam Price MP, who started who started the process of the Prime Minister’s impeachment in the summer when he published the report A Case to Answer.

Adam Price said that he hoped as many members of the public as possible would come along to the meetings to hear the case for impeachment:

“Last week we heard that up to a hundred thousand innocent Iraqi civilians may have died since Tony Blair and George Bush invaded Iraq in 2003. We now have the evidence to prove that the Prime Minister lied about the reasons for that invasion. He must be held accountable for those lies and impeachment is the only way this can happen.

“If we allow Tony Blair’s actions to go unchallenged, a precedent will have been set that the Prime Minister can deceive the public and parliament and get away with it. We cannot allow this to happen, especially in light of Mr Bush’s re-election last week; who knows what country they will choose to invade next and who could believe any justification put forward by either leader for any such invasion?”

Further meetings are scheduled for Aberystwyth on 26 November and Bangor on 10 December.

For more information about the impeachment campaign or to download a copy of the report on the Prime Minister’s conduct in relation to the Iraq war, A Case to Answer, please visit www.ImpeachBlair.org

See below for the text of the motion

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The text of the motion for the Prime Minister’s impeachment

Based on on-going discussions with the House of Commons authorities, the cross-party group of MPs behind the bid to ensure the Prime Minister is held accountable for his deception over the Iraq war believes the motion is in a form which can be placed on the order paper.

It is anticipated that the motion will be tabled early in the next parliamentary session and the group hopes the motion will be debated as soon as parliamentary time allows it.

The text of the motion reads:

Impeachment Motion - Conduct of the Prime Minister in relation to the war against Iraq

That a select committee of not more than 13 Members be appointed to investigate and to report to the House on the conduct of the Prime Minister in relation to the war against Iraq and in particular to consider;

(a) the conclusion of the Iraq Survey Group that in March 2003 Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction and had been essentially free of them since the mid 1990s

(b) the Prime Minister’s acknowledgement that he was wrong when in and before March 2003 he asserted that Iraq was then in possession of chemical or biological weapons or was then engaged in active efforts to develop nuclear weapons or was thereby a current or serious threat to the UK national interest or that possession of WMD then enabled Iraq to inflict real damage upon the region and the stability of the world

(c) the opinion of the Secretary General of the United Nations that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was unlawful

(d) whether there exist sufficient grounds to impeach the Rt Hon Tony Blair on charges of gross misconduct in his advocacy of the case for war against Iraq and in his conduct of policy in connection with that war.

That the Committee shall within 48 days of its appointment report to this House such resolutions, articles of impeachment or other recommendations as it shall think fit.