Blair was told it would be illegal to occupy Iraq.

Reports that British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned Prime Minister Tony Blair that, without a specific United Nations mandate to do so, attempts at postwar reconstruction in Iraq would be illegal. Details of the document written by Goldsmith following a meeting with Blair on postwar occupation, which Blair appears to have ignored; Limitations placed on occupying powers; Efforts of the British to secure a memorandum of understanding with the United States over occupation strategy.