Brown's Iraq admission shows he cannot be trusted says Clegg

9.00.00am GMT Sat 6th Mar 2010

"How can we trust a man who still believes that this illegal war and all the horror it has caused was right?" said the Liberal Democrat Leader.

Commenting on Gordon Brown's appearance at the Iraq inquiry, Nick Clegg said:

"This was the day Gordon Brown finally had to come clean and admit that he believes the Iraq war was right.

"We now know we were betrayed by Gordon Brown and we were betrayed by the Labour Party.

"How can we trust a man who still believes that this illegal war and all the horror it has caused was right?

"When the Liberal Democrats were the only party to oppose this immoral invasion we didn't just speak for us, we spoke for the nation."