PM refused Trump’s call to bomb Iraq after legal advice, Cummings claims

Boris Johnson's former chief aide described completely surreal day' in his testimony to MPs on Wednesday

Boris Johnson rejected a call from Donald Trump's White House to participate in airstrikes in Iraq last March after an intervention by the UK government's top legal officer, according to Dominic Cummings.

The reasoning behind the attorney general's advice was not spelled out by the prime minister's former chief aide during his seven-hour testimony on Wednesday, although a human rights group said the US strikes were illegal under international law.