A "verdict" is needed on Tony Blair following the publication of the Chilcot report, Alex Salmond has said.

The Iraq Inquiry was the "trial", but a "verdict" is still needed, Mr Salmond, speaking from Inverness said.

The former prime minister needs to be held to account for misleading the House of Commons over the causes for going to war in Iraq, Scotland's former First Minister said.

The SNP MP said that Mr Blair was "saying one thing to George W. Bush in private, and a totally different thing to Parliament and people in public. That's the Parliamentary crime, the offence, and it's time for Parliament to deliver the verdict".

"No Parliament worth its salt is tolerates being mislead," Mr Salmond added.

The MP for Gordon said this should be done by laying down a Contempt Motion in the House of Commons.

A Contempt Motion would not prejudice any actions by the families of the victims, or the authorities, Mr Salmond added.

If a majority in the House of Commons hold Mr Blair to be in contempt of Parliament following a Motion of Contempt, he would be summoned before the bar of the House of Commons and dealt "with in whichever way a Parliamentary committee judges to be proper".

Mr Salmond's calls for a Contempt Motion were echoed by Conservative MP, David Davis, when he appeared on The Andrew Marr Show.

Mr Davis similarly said that the Chilcot report was "a trial" but there has been no "verdict" on the Iraq War.

The Conservative MP said that Tony Blair mislead the House of Commons on five different occasions, and that he will put down a Contempt Motion in the House on Thursday in an attempt to get that "verdict".

Misleading the House on one occasion could have been an accident, but not five times, the former Conservative leadership party said.

Mr Davis said that while the Chilcot report looked into the causes and consequences of the war, it was not asked to rule on whether it was right or wrong. This was for the House of Commons to decide, Mr Davis said.

The comments come after Lord Prescott, the deputy prime minister at the time of the 2003 invasion said the war was illegal.