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Business of the House

May I suggest that next week we hold a debate entitled, ““This House has confidence in Her Majesty’s Government’s policy in and towards Iraq””? It would be interesting to see whether the Government have the courage to lay such a motion, which would enable those of us who opposed the war at its inception to repeat our view that it was foolish, probably immoral, certainly illegal, profoundly dangerous and wholly unnecessary. It would enable us to say that we think that inadequate provision was made for the post-war settlement, and to demand a strategy for an early and phased withdrawal.