Reg Keys has decided to stand in the Sedgefield constituency against the Prime Minister at the forthcoming election. He is backed by all the military families who have spoken out against the war.
Keys said 'as I waved my son Tom off to war I believed the credibility of this government and the fact that this was a legal war."
"I now feel a man betrayed by his own government and their legal advisers.
My son now rests in his grave, his oath of allegiance betrayed.
"There has to be accountability for this disgraceful conduct by the Prime Minister and his associates. That is why I am going to stand in Sedgefield because Tony Blair has to be made to account for this war.
Keys made his announcement as the government ducked and dived, but failed to provide anyone to explain the apparent change in Lord Goldsmith's legal advice on the eve of war.
There is no doubt that the final advice tipped the balance for some in voting with Blair -and that without it British support for Bush's murderous project might not have gone through.
On the basis of Goldsmith's change of heart, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office, resigned. Her resignation letter, damning enough in its shortened form, was censured to remove her critique on this point. And still the government
This government has lost any right to that trust.
• To help Reg Keys campaign send a cheque made out to Reg Keys(elect 05) to Military Families against the War, 27 Britannia St, London WC1X 9JP or make a bank transfer to account number 40783099 - sort code 20/69/17.
To follow Reg Keys' campaign visit www.mfaw.org.uk mass destruction, now we know there was no legal justification for the war either"