As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “286. On the evening of 18 March, the House of Commons passed by 412 votes to 149 a motion supporting ‘the decision of Her Majesty’s Government that the United Kingdom should use all means necessary to ensure the disarmament of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction’.”
– Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 18, 2003