The Guardian published articles of Alastair Campbell publicly stated yesterday that he no longer wants to be a member of the Labour party.

Ironic, to say the least. He was already kicked out of the party 2 months ago. His “concerns” were over Brexit (despite the fact that the party is now pro-Remain) and over winning the next election (despite Corbyn performing better than the general expectation in polls and elections).

But many in the Labour party and Muslims across the UK would be happy to see the back of him. His role in the Iraq war was instrumental in dragging the UK into an illegal war with the US.

He was the author of the “dodgy dossier”. Evidence at the time showed it was changed to fit the US narrative directly on his orders.

He has blood on his hands. He is very much a party to war crimes as Tony Blair is. An invasion that led to a million people dead in four years and millions forced to flee their homes, pushed into destitution. It also led to routine torture of prisoners, a higher level that it was under the regime. It led to killing of innocent people by occupying forces.

The world is still living in the wake of Iraq. We saw the unleashing of US-sponsored death squads – a key component of its “Salvador option” for pacifying the country – across Iraq. The people of Iraq are still living with the effect of the use of banned chemical weapons – one of the cruelest ironies of the conflict. In the wake of the latter, Fallujah, a city the size of Leeds, is now experiencing a level of birth defects worse than post-war Hiroshima. In the words of US marine Ross Caputi, who took part in the attack on Fallujah, the Iraq war was “one long atrocity”.

Yet, like Tony Blair, he enjoys the freedom of being treated like a normal political figure, eager to be given a voice by the mainstream media. Now that he is out of the party, we hope it’s one step closer to bringing him to justice with Blair.