 Tony Benn headed a the " coalition of resistance " , a group with was opposed to the UK austerity programme . In interviews in 2010 with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now ! and 2013 with Afshin <unk> on RT UK , Benn claimed that the actions of New Labour in the leadup to and aftermath of the Iraq War were such that the former Prime Minister Tony Blair should be tried for war crimes . Benn also claimed in 2010 that Blair had lost the " trust of the nation " regarding the war in Iraq . 
