Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced Monday he would be standing down from his role as MP at the House of Commons with immediate effect, triggering a by-election in the Oxfordshire seat.

But a report released by the foreign affairs committee just two days later has claimed the former Prime Minister was “ultimately responsible” for the failure of the controversial 2011 bombing campaign in Libya, The Daily Express reported.

Cameron became the MP for the seat - one of the safest Conservative seat in the country - in 2001 before stepping up as Tory leader in 2005.

According to the inquiry, strikes were launched based on poor intelligence and Cameron then allowed the military mission to switch its objective away from protecting civilians and towards the removal of Colonel Gaddafi.

It reads: “By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change.

"That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya.

“The result was political and economic collapse, inter-militia and intertribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of Islamic State in north Africa.”

The 49 page report found Britain failed to recognise Gaddafi’s threat to the civilian population had been exaggerated, and drew up a post-conflict plan not based on reality.

The report closely echoes the criticisms widely made of Tony Blair’s intervention in Iraq, claiming Cameron's failures led to the country becoming a failed a state on the verge of all-out civil war.

Source: MENA