DURING his evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry Gordon Brown tried to justify the invasion by claiming that Iraq did not comply with UN resolutions. It was a serial offender.

He said that the international community wanted Saddam Hussein removed from power.

Was Iraq the only country that failed to comply with UN resolutions? What about Israel?

If the international community had, indeed, wanted the invasion how was it that the resolution sought by Britain in the Security Council was denied them by France, Russia and China?

Mr Brown did not answer satisfactorily the questions about the casualties that were brought about because the Government had underestimated the cost of occupation.

He tried to justify the war on different grounds to those of Tony Blair, but he cannot count on the court of public opinion to support him.

Those who would vote Labour have to ask themselves whether they can do so in the General Election with Gordon Brown as leader.

Geoffrey Bulmer, Billingham.