Labour joins calls for Blair to be quizzed over torture

Ed Miliband’s brother David would also be expected to tell what he knows about any UK complicity

The Mole

Tony Blair and David Miliband are facing demands from their own party to give evidence about what they knew of British involvement in the torture and rendition of terrorist suspects by the CIA during America’s War on Terror.

The former Labour Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary are being pressed to come clean about UK involvement after it was revealed Britain asked the US government to redact sections of the shocking Senate report about torture and rendition released in Washington last week.

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