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Opposition day on Tuesday, 31 October 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Adam Price. The answering member was Baroness Beckett.

Iraq

Iraq. Unallotted half-day opposition day debate. Motion negatived on division (298 to 273). Amendment agreed on division (294 to 264).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
451 c163-224 
Session
2005-06
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 451 c163 (Link to this contribution) We now come to the main business, and I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the n...
Speaker | 451 c215 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman must withdraw that remark.
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Adrian Bailey | 451 c164 (Link to this contribution) I quite understand that the hon. Gentleman feels very deeply about this issue. But do his electorate...
Adam Price | 451 c164 (Link to this contribution) I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that, like many other Members, I have constituents who are now on ...
Adrian Bailey | 451 c163 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Adam Price | 451 c163-4 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I shall not. I intend to be as generous as I can, but I wish to...
Stuart Bell | 451 c164 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Adam Price | 451 c164-5 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make some progress, if I may. Almost on a weekly basis, we see senior military figure af...
Viscount Hailsham | 451 c164 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman care to remind the House that the argument that we should not debate these ...
Adam Price | 451 c164 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes the point very well. We need to turn the logic of the Gov...
Speaker | 451 c163 (Link to this contribution) We now come to the main business, and I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the n...
Adam Price | 451 c163 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House believes that there should be a select committee of seven honourable ...
Nick Palmer | 451 c165 (Link to this contribution) The difficulty that I and many others have with the idea of a fresh inquiry is the partisan response...
Adam Price | 451 c165 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way to the hon. Gentleman, I should like to state as a matter of record that I do not ...
Adam Price | 451 c166 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The wording of our motion reflects the wording of the Franks inquiry, so that there can ...
Adam Price | 451 c166 (Link to this contribution) In the interests of balance, I give way to a Labour Member.
Richard Ottaway | 451 c166 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recall that during the debate on the Hutton inquiry the Prime Minister actua...
Adam Price | 451 c166 (Link to this contribution) I have heard this charge of political opportunism—[Interruption.] Well, I have to tell the hon. Gent...
Baroness Browning | 451 c166 (Link to this contribution) Is not this symptomatic of the way the Government address such important issues? They held several n...
Adam Price | 451 c166 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The responsibility of Ministers to tell the truth is not just in making sure that they s...
John Baron | 451 c176 (Link to this contribution) Cannot the Foreign Secretary understand that a good part of the deep frustration expressed by this H...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c176 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way for the moment. I do not in any way underestimate the terrible difficulties tha...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c176 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I do not think that that is what is inspiring the comments and the mood in the House...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c175 (Link to this contribution) I did not say the words that the hon. Gentleman has put into my mouth, and I am sorry if he misheard...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) I am willing to give way, if I have time, but I must get on with my speech. The decision to take pa...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c175 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman is talking complete nonsense, as he must be well aware. He is a...
Paul Keetch | 451 c175 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary seems to be saying that an inquiry now would be wrong, because our forces are ...
Lord Tyrie | 451 c179 (Link to this contribution) This debate is not about the conduct of policy in Iraq now, but about whether we should hold a Selec...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c179 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, as the hon. Gentleman has risen on many occasions, but this must be the last time t...
Lord Tyrie | 451 c179 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Speaker | 451 c178 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that it has been made clear to the hon. Gentleman that the Foreign Secretary is not g...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c178 (Link to this contribution) Two entire provinces, al-Muthanna and Dhi Qar, have already been handed over to Iraqi control, and m...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c178 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must continue my speech. The Government share the Prime Minister’s determination—...
Alex Salmond | 451 c178 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Bob Russell | 451 c178 (Link to this contribution) While praising our troops’ contribution both in the war and today, will the Foreign Secretary please...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c177 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely correct. Elsewhere, we have seen a spiral of retaliatory sectarian killi...
Lord Maples | 451 c173 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary prayed in aid the Select Committee’s report. I was a member of that Committee,...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c173 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maples), who I believe is a member of the F...
Paul Keetch | 451 c173 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Baroness Beckett | 451 c173 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry; I do not accept that in the slightest, and I shall tell the hon. Gentleman why. I follow...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 451 c173 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary think I am exceptional, in the sense that not one of my constituents has ...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c173 (Link to this contribution) Not for a minute. I am in the middle of answering a previous intervention. I followed those matters ...
Edward Leigh | 451 c172 (Link to this contribution) So the Foreign Secretary can give a firm commitment to the House that an inquiry will be held as soo...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c172 (Link to this contribution) What I am saying to the House, and what I shall say repeatedly, is that this is not the time for mak...
Mark Pritchard | 451 c172-3 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary asks why now. What if, God forbid, Parliament has to vote to send our brave ar...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c173 (Link to this contribution) I do not take any lectures from Conservative Members, who never, ever gave the House a vote about se...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) I have been on my feet for seven minutes, and I have made very little progress. It is now more than...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c174 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must make some progress. It is now more than three years—
Baroness Beckett | 451 c174 (Link to this contribution) As for the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s contention that a Franks-type inquiry is required, I r...
Speaker | 451 c174 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Foreign Secretary is responding, and she must be heard.
Malcolm Rifkind | 451 c175 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary realise that her opposition to an inquiry into the origins of the Governm...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c173 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who I know is held in high regard in all parts of the House. ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 451 c174 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary would get rid of the dissention this afternoon and send out a fairly united me...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c174 (Link to this contribution) I am surprised that the right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot understand what I am saying, because...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a little progress, if I may. What happens in the House today will be heard not only by...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c174 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a moment. There is an important tradition in the House that all political parti...
Adam Price | 451 c169 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, he knows my position because we debated that a week...
Speaker | 451 c169 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let the hon. Gentleman be heard.
Speaker | 451 c170 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr. Hall, it is not your function to heckle an hon. Member constantly, especially when I have...
Adam Price | 451 c169 (Link to this contribution) I would welcome the opportunity to go to Iraq. I have been trying to go. I was told by the former Fo...
Chris Bryant | 451 c169 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Adam Price | 451 c169 (Link to this contribution) I need to make progress. There is no shame in changing one’s mind when new facts come to light. Ask...
Chris Bryant | 451 c169 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has said one thing this afternoon with which I wholeheartedly agree: the people o...
Tom Levitt | 451 c168 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman tell the House whether, in his preparation for this debate, he had discussio...
Adam Price | 451 c168 (Link to this contribution) As we have learned over the past few days, with the leaked Cabinet minute and the leaked national in...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c172 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) was first.
Baroness Beckett | 451 c172 (Link to this contribution) Not for the moment. There have already been two parliamentary Committee reports on Iraq: the Foreig...
Pete Wishart | 451 c172 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Baroness Beckett | 451 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““House”” to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:"“...
Edward Leigh | 451 c172 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Denis MacShane | 451 c170 (Link to this contribution) To clarify the point for my understanding, will the hon. Gentleman have the courtesy to tell the Hou...
Adam Price | 451 c170-1 (Link to this contribution) We had a full debate, which I led, and my position is absolutely clear. Where was the right hon. Gen...
Adam Price | 451 c170 (Link to this contribution) There is a problem at the heart of our constitution and tonight we need to reapply the constitutiona...
Speaker | 451 c170 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is in order.
Adam Price | 451 c170 (Link to this contribution) There is a fundamental breakdown at the heart of the Government that is continuing to affect decisio...
Adam Price | 451 c167 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I pay tribute to courageous Members on both sides of the House who have declared suppor...
Ian Lucas | 451 c167 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lembit Opik | 451 c167 (Link to this contribution) Some have accused the hon. Gentleman of opportunism in choosing to debate this subject on an Opposit...
Adam Price | 451 c168 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I entirely I agree with the hon. Gentleman.
Adam Price | 451 c168 (Link to this contribution) I need to make progress—[Interruption.]
Jeremy Corbyn | 451 c168 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman also concede that any inquiry should look in some detail at the circumstance...
Speaker | 451 c168 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has said that he has to make progress. He is not giving way.
Mark Fisher | 451 c166 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my view that one of the things at stake this afternoon is the credibil...
Adrian Bailey | 451 c182 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that there will be lessons to learn, and he could be right. However, d...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c183 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The fact that our amendment has not been selected for debate does m...
Speaker | 451 c183 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the hon. Lady that the right hon. Gentleman’s amendment has not been selected for de...
Kitty Ussher | 451 c183 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman believe that if his amendment is carried, the Iraqi authorities will i...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c184 (Link to this contribution) I do think that there is a great demand for the inquiry, although it is a pity that Ministers are no...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c183 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field).
Khalid Mahmood | 451 c180 (Link to this contribution) Those lives have been taken as a result of action by the insurgents. Our troops are there to make su...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c181 (Link to this contribution) I have repeatedly told the hon. Lady that I am not giving way to her. Some have argued that we shou...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) I hope that all Members will think very carefully indeed before casting their votes tonight. It is a...
Khalid Mahmood | 451 c180 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your guidance. What I meant to say was that actions taken her...
Speaker | 451 c180 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman may wish to rethink his words and rephrase what he just said.
Baroness Beckett | 451 c181 (Link to this contribution) I have said, and we have repeatedly said, that neither our forces nor our civilian support staff wil...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c182 (Link to this contribution) There is a strong case, which is felt throughout the House, for a lengthier and wider-ranging debate...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c180 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, for the final time. [Interruption.] It is only the third time that I have given way...
Khalid Mahmood | 451 c180 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Baroness Beckett | 451 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) No. We expect the Iraqi Government to request an extension of the UN mandate under which we are cur...
Baroness Kramer | 451 c179 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Baroness Beckett | 451 c179 (Link to this contribution) I utterly agree, and I simply tell Opposition Members that they do not have much cause to complain, ...
Sandra Osborne | 451 c179 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that when the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq was in the House last we...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c179 (Link to this contribution) On the hon. Gentleman’s final point, the inquiry was followed by the Intelligence and Security Commi...
Speaker | 451 c179 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is a very experienced Member of the House and knows that interventions mus...
Khalid Mahmood | 451 c180 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. I think that the real issue today is the huge number of...
Viscount Hailsham | 451 c185 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend also remind the House that President Bush himself commissioned former Secr...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c185 (Link to this contribution) I really must make some progress, but I will give way to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c185 (Link to this contribution) Let me see. I shall give way to the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn), for the sake o...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c185 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend makes a valid point. Similarly, the former Chief of the Defence Sta...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c184 (Link to this contribution) I will give way a few more times later, but I must make some progress first. The argument put to th...
Jane Kennedy | 451 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman—although I am sad to see him allying himself and his party...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) Those people will be particularly concerned about our deliberations today, but it is also in the int...
Jeremy Corbyn | 451 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the military families campaign—many of whose members have los...
Jim Devine | 451 c209 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alex Salmond | 451 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) It is an enormous pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn), because i...
Alex Salmond | 451 c209 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will give me a minute or two to develop my point first. I certainly w...
Ian Lucas | 451 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) My view is that in due course there will be an inquiry into the events that led to the troops being ...
Ian Lucas | 451 c205 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, because the hon. Member for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr (Adam Price) refused t...
Charles Kennedy | 451 c205-7 (Link to this contribution) For personal reasons that the House will well understand, this is the first time that I have contrib...
Jeremy Corbyn | 451 c207-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand that those on the Front Bench want to start the wind-up at 6.40, and I will co-operate ...
Alex Salmond | 451 c211 (Link to this contribution) Asked whether historians would judge Iraq to have been a ““foreign policy disaster””, the Foreign Se...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c211 (Link to this contribution) I am reluctant to intervene, but what the hon. Member for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr (Adam Price) ...
Alex Salmond | 451 c210-1 (Link to this contribution) I will, in a second or two. The Foreign Secretary shook her head when my hon. Friend the Member for...
Jim Sheridan | 451 c210 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alex Salmond | 451 c210 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it was Lord Aberdeen who, in 1855, fell on just such a motion, but I do not think that the hon....
Jim Devine | 451 c209 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Let me say to him, in a comradely way, ““You tub...
Alex Salmond | 451 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should accept that we ought not to allow the Leader of the Opposition to be the o...
Adam Ingram | 451 c213 (Link to this contribution) There is one thing that can be said about the nationalists—never do a deal with them, because they h...
Alex Salmond | 451 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) The motion began as an impeachment motion. [Hon. Members: ““Answer!””] We tabled the motion that app...
Alex Salmond | 451 c211 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a second, after I have taken an intervention from the right...
Clare Short | 451 c211 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we do not have an exit strategy on Iraq, and that the chaos can c...
Alex Salmond | 451 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Lady. I understand that she was at the Cabinet table when the decisions ...
Jim Sheridan | 451 c212 (Link to this contribution) Those of us who know the hon. Gentleman from his work in Scotland know that he is a straight-talking...
Clare Short | 451 c211 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alex Salmond | 451 c211 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way, the third reason for supporting the motion concerns what happens if the same circ...
David Hamilton | 451 c215 (Link to this contribution) As one who voted against the Government on six different occasions on Iraq, unlike some of the hypoc...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c214-5 (Link to this contribution) Well—[Interruption.] I am not stumped. There have been a number of inquiries by the Select Committee...
Speaker | 451 c215 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister has already indicated that he is not giving way and there are only a few minutes...
Adam Ingram | 451 c214 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is going to tell us how to do it better.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c214 (Link to this contribution) What exactly prevents the Government from committing themselves to an inquiry at some point in futur...
Adam Ingram | 451 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has made a valid point. It has been said tonight that we have innumerable forei...
Adam Ingram | 451 c213 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not give way at the moment. We have accepted that things could, and should, have been d...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 451 c213 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that there is little hunger in our constituencies for a retrospectiv...
Lord Blunkett | 451 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way, as I have only a few minutes left. There are, in the words of Donald Rumsf...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c187 (Link to this contribution) No. Given the practical confines of House of Commons procedures, it is logical for an Opposition to ...
Lord Redwood | 451 c187 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that we have been fighting in Iraq for the cause of democracy and li...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c188 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a powerful point. As I have said, our predecessors in this House debated ...
Speaker | 451 c188 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that Mr. Speaker has imposed an eight-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches....
Lord Blunkett | 451 c188 (Link to this contribution) What a tangled web we weave—[Interruption.]
Lord Blunkett | 451 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) Those who from the beginning were against the action that we took remain opposed to it. Those who wi...
Lynne Jones | 451 c189 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Tom Levitt | 451 c187 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Although I disagree with many of his concl...
Michael Moore | 451 c192 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a first-class point. I hope that Members on the Government Benches will ref...
Lynne Jones | 451 c192 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is considerable disquiet in the country about the fact that...
Michael Moore | 451 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) This is a very important debate, and anybody who doubted the need for it just needs to cast their ey...
Ben Wallace | 451 c191-2;451 c191 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think it perverse that a serving general can ask for a reflection about our ...
Michael Moore | 451 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) We are not, and I will get to that point. I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman’s constituents who wil...
Eric Joyce | 451 c194 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has used the name of the Chief of the General Staff several times. That is up to ...
Michael Moore | 451 c192-3 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Member for Lancaster and Wyre (Mr. Wallace) remarked earlier, it is extraordinary that i...
Gordon Marsden | 451 c193 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman is speaking in this debate, some of my constituents in Blackpool are being dep...
Lord Blunkett | 451 c190 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way because we have an eight-minute rule. In all conflicts, what happens in the...
Denis MacShane | 451 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way. I do not understand why the United States will not talk to Iran. I do not unde...
Peter Tapsell | 451 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) The invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq was, in my view, a strategic, political and humanitar...
Denis MacShane | 451 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) I enjoyed the speech of the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (Mr. Moore), who was ...
Denis MacShane | 451 c196 (Link to this contribution) With the time limits that have been set, I would rather not. We had a vote at the time on that poli...
Denis MacShane | 451 c196-7 (Link to this contribution) Will hon. Members forgive me if do not give way because of the time limits? We now have a very odd ...
Michael Moore | 451 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. We are seeing that there is a lot of pent-up demand for that debate. E...
John Baron | 451 c194 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point, but this is not just a question of looking across the Atl...
Ian Lucas | 451 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) On 17 March 2003, I voted against my Labour Government for the first time. It was one of two occasio...
Peter Soulsby | 451 c204 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks of the mistakes that were made at the time. Indeed, in their amendment the Gov...
Malcolm Rifkind | 451 c202-3 (Link to this contribution) No; I am sorry, but I have limited time. Some of us were always against the war, while others, on b...
Eric Joyce | 451 c202 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond), who tabled the motion, has said that he has"““br...
Malcolm Rifkind | 451 c202 (Link to this contribution) I go by the terms of the motion, which does not mention those words. Frankly, that is a separate iss...
Malcolm Rifkind | 451 c201-2 (Link to this contribution) The best debates in this House are when hon. Members on both sides find themselves in almost total a...
Gavin Strang | 451 c199-201 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that my hon. Friend is speaking for his constituents when he makes that statement, a...
Mohammad Sarwar | 451 c199 (Link to this contribution) Since the invasion of Iraq, 2,800 American soldiers, 120 British soldiers and hundreds of thousands ...
Gavin Strang | 451 c199 (Link to this contribution) Having asked the Leader of the House for a debate on the situation in Iraq, and having been disappoi...
Adam Ingram | 451 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) I recognise my hon. Friend’s honourable position on that issue. The nationalists give no support—[I...
David Hamilton | 451 c215 (Link to this contribution) I withdraw it. I was saying that I was different from some Conservative Members who voted for the G...
Nick Palmer | 451 c177 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the seriousness of the issue deserves more than the partisan op...
Baroness Beckett | 451 c178 (Link to this contribution) I am explaining why the motion is so profoundly misconceived. The future of Iraq and its people is a...
Michael Moore | 451 c194 (Link to this contribution) I know the hon. Gentleman well. We have had debates on Iraq in private and in public many times over...
Adam Price | 451 c170 (Link to this contribution) Let us have this debate now. I would welcome the opportunity to have a debate about the withdrawal—[...
Adam Price | 451 c166-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mark Fisher) has laid bare the constitutional question,...
Adam Price | 451 c167 (Link to this contribution) I have been generous, but I must make some progress because we need to hear as many Back-Bench speec...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c185 (Link to this contribution) We do not disagree with that at all. Of course it is a great priority. But it would be a mistake to ...
Alex Salmond | 451 c209 (Link to this contribution) I beg the hon. Gentleman’s pardon; I promised to give way to him, and I shall.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 451 c183 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point, but the Foreign Secretary has been unable confirm that ther...
Speaker | 451 c180 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind all right hon. and hon. Members that interventions must be brief.
Jeremy Corbyn | 451 c208 (Link to this contribution) No. I have only one minute left. I want the motion to be carried so that we establish a committee o...
Andrew Turner | 451 c190 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 451 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not agree that it is clear from the debate that the House of Commons w...
Adam Ingram | 451 c215 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting to note that the hon. Member for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr (Adam Price) rejecte...
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