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Escape of Taliban Prisoners

The Minister has made a very clear and good statement, but is the situation not proof again that events in Afghanistan are controlling us, rather than the other way around? I wonder whether, on the subject of Afghanistan, a lot more people in this House and in the country may be recognising the salience of Pitt the elder's remark that we should retract while we can, rather than retract when we must. ...You could ask somebody about Pitt.