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Opposition day on Wednesday, 24 June 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hague of Richmond. The answering member was David Miliband.

Iraq Inquiry

Iraq inquiry. Fourteenth opposition day debate. Motion negatived on division (299 to 260). Amendment agreed on division (305 to 251).

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
494 c800-910 
Session
2008-09
Department
Ministry of Defence
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 494 c829 (Link to this contribution) Order. I should remind the House that Mr. Speaker has placed a 10-minute limit on Back-Bench speeche...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 494 c807 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, if I am still allowed to call him that. Before he le...
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Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c807 (Link to this contribution) I will end up having to give way to both Members; I give way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman...
Rob Marris | 494 c807 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is generous as ever. Can he give an indication of what he thinks the inquir...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c807 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman is absolutely right. That is why the terms of reference should ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c806-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we certainly reserve the right to do that if the Government change and a committee of inquiry i...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c807 (Link to this contribution) I think that I had better make a bit of progress.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c803 (Link to this contribution) That will be the subject of some of my speech and perhaps some of the Foreign Secretary's. The issue...
Oliver Heald | 494 c803 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that another concern is that only recently the Government proposed t...
Paul Flynn | 494 c803 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Clive Efford | 494 c802 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c802 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not give way at the moment, because I am just explaining why we have moved the motion. ...
Dari Taylor | 494 c802 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who is speaking to the House with considerable gusto...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c802 (Link to this contribution) I have explained when I shall give way, and I am in the middle of an admittedly long sentence. Give...
Clive Efford | 494 c802 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Gentleman; the people, on both sides of the House, who were responsible ...
Gordon Prentice | 494 c806 (Link to this contribution) On that very point, the Government amendment asks the chairman of the inquiry, Chilcot, to consult p...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c804 (Link to this contribution) We all hope that all those things will be encompassed in one inquiry, and I am sure that it is bette...
Paul Flynn | 494 c804 (Link to this contribution) Although I believe that the openness of the inquiry has already been acceded to, the important point...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c803-4 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment, because a lot of Members will wish to speak. The Franks inquiry was characterise...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c805-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the mess and chaos that I am describing, which accompanied the ...
John Barrett | 494 c805 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the changes that he suggests should take place because the ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c805 (Link to this contribution) I do stand by my vote and my speech on that occasion. No doubt when the inquiry reports, we will all...
David Winnick | 494 c804 (Link to this contribution) I was one of those many Labour Members who urged last week that the inquiry should be as public as p...
Michael Mates | 494 c851-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Let me finish by saying that it is rather an insult to us as ...
David Winnick | 494 c852-3 (Link to this contribution) If one consensus has emerged, it is that the inquiry should be far more public than private. If the ...
Michael Mates | 494 c851 (Link to this contribution) I will leave the interpreter of mandarin to draw his own conclusions. The whole UK-US relationship ...
David Davis | 494 c851 (Link to this contribution) I commend my right hon. Friend on making an astonishingly informative speech. To reinforce his comme...
Michael Mates | 494 c849-50 (Link to this contribution) That is not what I was saying. I was saying that there was not a comprehensive plan as to how to han...
Robert Marshall-Andrews | 494 c850-1 (Link to this contribution) The passage to which I think the right hon. Gentleman is referring is exactly the mandarin passage t...
Michael Mates | 494 c848-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to follow the line of public versus private, oath versus no oath. Those foxes have be...
Clare Short | 494 c849 (Link to this contribution) The military keep implying that it was the fault of the humanitarian agencies that there was no reco...
Mohammad Sarwar | 494 c853 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend willing to concede that there are Members in the House who would accept that if th...
David Winnick | 494 c853 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I accept that some have changed their mind, but having listened to today's debate I believe I a...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 494 c853 (Link to this contribution) I fail to see the relevance of the argument of the vote. Quite a number of us were not Members of th...
Tobias Ellwood | 494 c855 (Link to this contribution) I made an intervention earlier in which I stressed the importance of the relationship between the Mi...
Clare Short | 494 c855-7 (Link to this contribution) I cannot confirm that date, but I can confirm that when I heard the rumour—but did not see the legal...
Michael Mates | 494 c857 (Link to this contribution) I am not following the right hon. Lady in her criticisms, but if memory serves me correctly, there w...
Clare Short | 494 c857-8 (Link to this contribution) All the Cabinet meetings were little chats: they were never a proper consideration of all the option...
David Winnick | 494 c853-4 (Link to this contribution) I have already said that I recognise the necessity for an inquiry that should be far more public tha...
Michael Mates | 494 c854 (Link to this contribution) I was not trying to argue either for or against regime change. What I was saying, and what I think t...
David Winnick | 494 c854 (Link to this contribution) I do not deny that regime change is illegal. However, in 1979 both Cambodia and Tanzania were libera...
Clare Short | 494 c855 (Link to this contribution) In the short time that is available—let me put on record that I still resent the guillotining of eve...
Iain Duncan Smith | 494 c858 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady—I do not think that she will lose any time by taking this inter...
Gordon Prentice | 494 c859-60 (Link to this contribution) I remember being here on 15 June, when the Prime Minister made his statement on Iraq. I felt angry a...
Clare Short | 494 c858 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that because this was being driven—I am running out of time—by the Prime Minister on t...
Jeremy Corbyn | 494 c860 (Link to this contribution) There are no limits in Parliament to final things.
Gordon Prentice | 494 c860-1 (Link to this contribution) My views will not be changed by the Minister's big, broad smile, but I want to say something about d...
Iain Duncan Smith | 494 c860 (Link to this contribution) I want to follow up on one point about which the hon. Gentleman has not spoken. I and others noted e...
Gordon Prentice | 494 c860 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more about that. Indeed, my friend the Member for Cannock Chase said in a letter t...
George Galloway | 494 c862 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. There has been a holding to account in the United States of America—there has been catharsis...
George Galloway | 494 c861 (Link to this contribution) With respect, Mr. Deputy Speaker, 10 minutes of most Back Benchers is more than enough, but there ar...
Jeremy Corbyn | 494 c861-2 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Member also concede that it is not just British politics that has been changed and sha...
George Galloway | 494 c863 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give way, because I shall lose the time—I have no extra time. I am sorry. The House must fo...
George Galloway | 494 c863-4 (Link to this contribution) Quite so. A distinguished civil servant, just as Mr. or Lord Chilcot, Sir Chilcot or whatever he is ...
Gordon Prentice | 494 c863 (Link to this contribution) I think it is completely out of order for the hon. Gentleman to traduce Baroness Prashar from the ot...
Mohammad Sarwar | 494 c864-6 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in this important debate, which is of great interest t...
John Baron | 494 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) The justification used by Government and others since the war has been varied. We have heard explana...
John Baron | 494 c867 (Link to this contribution) Or spooks who actually upgraded the 45-minute claim and made sure that it was an integral part of th...
John Baron | 494 c867 (Link to this contribution) I shall take an intervention, because I think that I get an extra minute.
Barry Gardiner | 494 c867 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman and shall be as quick as I can. Does he recall that on the ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 494 c869 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that that is actually a self-defeating exercise? Unless the inquiry can a...
Alan Simpson | 494 c869-71 (Link to this contribution) I think that is the case, and it will confirm to the public that everything this House did not want ...
John Baron | 494 c867-8 (Link to this contribution) With respect, I think that the hon. Gentleman has missed the point; the point is that the intelligen...
Alan Simpson | 494 c868-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that there is going to be an inquiry, but I share the feeling expressed by other ...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c876 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recall that on 18 March 2003, the opinion polls showed that 56 per cent. of ...
Lynne Jones | 494 c874-6 (Link to this contribution) In March last year, on another occasion when we debated the need for an inquiry on Iraq, the Foreign...
Adam Price | 494 c873 (Link to this contribution) That point was dealt with by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood when she said that there...
Barry Gardiner | 494 c873 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recall the words of resolution 1441, which includes the words:""Determined t...
Adam Price | 494 c871-3 (Link to this contribution) At this point in the proceedings, we begin to echo each other, and we are doing so today across the ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 494 c878-80 (Link to this contribution) I am one of those who voted for the conflict. I have told the House before that I shall deeply regre...
Geoffrey Cox | 494 c880-3 (Link to this contribution) I have listened awestruck and impressed to the contributions made to the House today. I was not a Me...
Speaker | 494 c883 (Link to this contribution) Order. I advise hon. Members that the winding-up speeches will begin at 6.30 pm. Five Members are ho...
John McDonnell | 494 c883-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall be extremely brief, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have not intervened in the debate, and did not s...
Greg Mulholland | 494 c876-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman shows how out of touch with the public he remains. That is also what the Governme...
Speaker | 494 c800 (Link to this contribution) I advise the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Minister.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c800-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House, while welcoming the announcement by the Government of an Inquiry int...
Lembit Opik | 494 c801 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that one reason why the public and right hon. and hon. Members a...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c801 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right, because such a beginning to the processes of the inquiry damages ...
Clive Efford | 494 c802 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c801 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am aware that my right hon. and learned Friend proposed an inquiry and has, therefore, been p...
Marquess of Lothian | 494 c801 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend referred to the politically cynical timing of the inquiry. Is he aware that, on...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c801-2 (Link to this contribution) Let me just finish this point, and then I shall certainly give way to the hon. Lady. In one importa...
Dari Taylor | 494 c801 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Richard Shepherd | 494 c885-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the burden of the arguments made by the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDo...
John McDonnell | 494 c884 (Link to this contribution) It is as my hon. Friend says. I do not think that the Prime Minister and others around him have unde...
John McDonnell | 494 c884-5 (Link to this contribution) In today's debate we have gone beyond the examination of the individuals appointed to conduct the in...
Mark Durkan | 494 c884 (Link to this contribution) Further to the poignant arguments that my hon. Friend is making and that the House should consider, ...
Dai Davies | 494 c887-8 (Link to this contribution) As I look around the Chamber, I see that I am probably the junior Member. Today Members have made so...
Tobias Ellwood | 494 c888-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak at the end of this important debate. Right hon. and hon. Members have made...
Oliver Heald | 494 c890 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case, with which I strongly agree. Does he agree that it is vita...
Tobias Ellwood | 494 c890-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes such a valid point. That is the level of detail that needs to be looked at. It ...
Clare Short | 494 c889 (Link to this contribution) Just to make this clear, I have not said that there were no plans. Detailed plans were made with the...
Tobias Ellwood | 494 c889-90 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is actually making my point for me. Whose responsibility is it to make peace? Is...
Mark Durkan | 494 c892-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to the chair of the inquiry, who has form. In Northern Ireland, he was used to...
Jeremy Corbyn | 494 c891-2 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My Friend gets that message about Iraq in her constituency, as every Member does, and it...
Diane Abbott | 494 c891 (Link to this contribution) Like me, my hon. Friend was on that great march in 2003. Does he agree that part of the disillusion ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 494 c891 (Link to this contribution) I have been present at virtually every debate on Iraq for the past seven years. I never thought that...
Andrew Mackinlay | 494 c895 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister are now petrified that, as some of the hearings will be...
Liam Fox | 494 c895-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows other Labour Members better than I do, and on this occasion I am willing to...
Jeremy Corbyn | 494 c893 (Link to this contribution) I think the Member for Foyle is telling us in the vernacular that the chairman of the inquiry has fo...
Liam Fox | 494 c893-5 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent debate, and has featured some outstanding contributions. A wide range of ...
Bill Rammell | 494 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall deal with that point directly. I assure the hon. Gentleman that he will get a response. In ...
Geoffrey Cox | 494 c898 (Link to this contribution) What has the Minister to fear from submitting proposed terms of reference to this House on a substan...
Bill Rammell | 494 c897 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says, the inquiry needs to be independent, and, in the way that it is structured, ...
Liam Fox | 494 c897 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says the inquiry is not about indicting individuals. The Foreign Secretary said that th...
Bill Rammell | 494 c897 (Link to this contribution) We have had an exceedingly good debate. It clear that Members in all parts of the House have genuine...
David Miliband | 494 c811-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from "House" to the end of the Question and add:""welcomes ...
Bernard Jenkin | 494 c901 (Link to this contribution) Why should the Government, and not the House, decide?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c808-11 (Link to this contribution) I might give way to the right hon. Gentleman later, but I know that a lot of Members wish to speak. ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 494 c900 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that the Government have been in listening mode and that they want to go along wit...
Bill Rammell | 494 c900 (Link to this contribution) Over the past 10 days, we have genuinely listened to the views and criticisms expressed. We have rig...
David Miliband | 494 c812 (Link to this contribution) There were many hundreds of thousands. As I said, many, many thousands have lost their lives. There ...
David Miliband | 494 c812 (Link to this contribution) It would be quite wrong of me to confirm that, because nothing—
Harry Cohen | 494 c812 (Link to this contribution) Is not the Secretary of State being mealy-mouthed in saying that many thousands of Iraqis died? Was ...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 494 c899 (Link to this contribution) If the House resolves to give the inquiry the authority to compel witnesses and to put them on oath,...
Tobias Ellwood | 494 c812 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Bill Rammell | 494 c899 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect, I must tell my hon. Friend that the problem with a statutory judicial inq...
David Miliband | 494 c812 (Link to this contribution) Whatever position any right hon. or hon. Member has taken, I am sure that they all condemn the killi...
David Winnick | 494 c812 (Link to this contribution) We all know that hundreds of thousands have died, murdered, in the main, and certainly not by the Br...
Iain Duncan Smith | 494 c900 (Link to this contribution) May I return the Minister to the central issue? It is not about the war itself, but about how we inq...
Bill Rammell | 494 c900 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend is not driven by partisanship on this issue, and he makes a very reasonab...
Tony Wright | 494 c899-900 (Link to this contribution) I think that we are making unnecessarily heavy weather of this. We have made enormous progress and c...
Bill Rammell | 494 c899 (Link to this contribution) In all the debates that we have had on this matter in recent months, the Franks inquiry has been cit...
Bill Rammell | 494 c898 (Link to this contribution) There has never been a ban on what the inquiry can consider. Compared with any other inquiry, this o...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c898 (Link to this contribution) Can we be absolutely clear, for the avoidance of all further doubt, that the Prime Minister's statem...
Bill Rammell | 494 c899 (Link to this contribution) Let me make some progress, then I will give way. I ask those of my hon. Friends who might be consid...
Andrew Mackinlay | 494 c899 (Link to this contribution) But there is no way to deliver that. The Prime Minister knows that, Chilcot knows it and anyone in t...
Bill Rammell | 494 c898 (Link to this contribution) There is a problem in our political system. When Governments listen to the concerns that have been e...
David Heath | 494 c898 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is saying what the Prime Minister made clear. What he made clear on 15 June is th...
Bill Rammell | 494 c898 (Link to this contribution) I will come on to the issue of the oath.
Speaker | 494 c901 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
Bill Rammell | 494 c901 (Link to this contribution) Having started on the basis that we did, the Prime Minister and the Government, as I have said, have...
Speaker | 494 c901 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House must come to order. I know that tempers are running high and feelings are strong, b...
David Heath | 494 c827 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is the case, but I am not even sure that it needs an Act of Parliament. I think th...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 494 c827 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I am going to be entirely helpful to my hon. Friend, for which I hope that he wil...
David Heath | 494 c827 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my right hon. and learned Friend. That is the weakness of the position—that pr...
Michael Mates | 494 c825 (Link to this contribution) I hope, but I obviously cannot predict, that the inquiry will work in the same way as Committees of ...
Clare Short | 494 c826 (Link to this contribution) Just for clarity, the legal advice appeared at the last minute in an answer to a parliamentary quest...
David Heath | 494 c825-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I am entirely reassured by that. Yes, of course, it is reasonable for a witness t...
Geoffrey Cox | 494 c827 (Link to this contribution) In order for someone to be found guilty of perjury—or to be charged with perjury—it has to be demons...
David Heath | 494 c826-7 (Link to this contribution) We had leaked advice, but it is a fundamental shift of policy by the Government formally to allow si...
Marquess of Lothian | 494 c827 (Link to this contribution) There is one way of getting out of this confusion, and that is for this House to pass a one clause B...
David Heath | 494 c827 (Link to this contribution) Clarification is certainly needed, and I am not equipped to argue points of law with the hon. and le...
David Miliband | 494 c812-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his honesty. I shall make some progress. The House is unite...
Malcolm Rifkind | 494 c813 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has just said that the Chilcot inquiry will be completely free to write its ow...
David Miliband | 494 c813-4 (Link to this contribution) As the Prime Minister said last week, this is not an inquiry that has been set up to establish civil...
Tony Wright | 494 c814 (Link to this contribution) We are clearly in a much better place than we were just a few days ago. In addition to the points th...
David Miliband | 494 c813 (Link to this contribution) It is inherent in the inquiry writing its own report that it will be entirely free to write its own ...
David Miliband | 494 c814 (Link to this contribution) As the Prime Minister set out last week, this is an inquiry not to establish civil or criminal liabi...
David Miliband | 494 c814 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that later in my speech. Last week, the Prime Minister said in his statement that th...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 494 c814 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that if anybody has lied to take the country to war, there will b...
John Baron | 494 c814 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary, who is being generous in giving way. May I suggest that his list of c...
David Miliband | 494 c814 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect, I can only believe that the hon. Gentleman was not listening to what I sa...
Gordon Prentice | 494 c815 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way on that point?
David Miliband | 494 c815 (Link to this contribution) I will return to the point about the public sessions. First, I want to deal with the scope of the in...
Lynne Jones | 494 c815 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 494 c815 (Link to this contribution) I want to get to the end of this section of my speech, then I will bring in my hon. Friend. I want t...
Lynne Jones | 494 c815 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 494 c816 (Link to this contribution) I have said that I want to get through this section of my speech; then I will bring in my hon. Frien...
David Miliband | 494 c816 (Link to this contribution) I want to deal with the questions on membership, but my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly...
Lynne Jones | 494 c816 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. Who did the Prime Minister consult about the compositio...
Tom Levitt | 494 c817 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way and I thank him for the frankness of his statem...
David Miliband | 494 c817 (Link to this contribution) Sir John is a strong, able, dedicated public servant, and I think that he is well able to look after...
Marquess of Lothian | 494 c817 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary mentioned a moment ago the fact that Sir John Chilcot has been told to see whe...
David Miliband | 494 c817 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows well that the Inquiries Act 2005 sets out what is effecti...
David Miliband | 494 c816-7 (Link to this contribution) In the first debate on Iraq in which I participated after becoming Foreign Secretary, I talked about...
David Miliband | 494 c817 (Link to this contribution) I shall bring in the right hon. and learned Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram). Then, I want to make pr...
David Miliband | 494 c816 (Link to this contribution) Sir John was consulted. That is one of the points and I will come on to the reasons. The hon. Member...
Tobias Ellwood | 494 c816 (Link to this contribution) I would like to intervene now, whether it is or is not still relevant. [Laughter.] One learns quickl...
Clare Short | 494 c817 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Clare Short | 494 c817 (Link to this contribution) On the point with which he is dealing.
David Miliband | 494 c818 (Link to this contribution) No. I need to make some progress. Fourthly, let me deal with the membership of the committee. The G...
David Miliband | 494 c818 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry. The hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk (Mr. Simpson) is becoming excited. In passing, the righ...
Patrick Mercer | 494 c818 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 494 c817 (Link to this contribution) In view of the right hon. Lady's role, I will give way, but then I must make some progress.
Clare Short | 494 c818 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary. Surely it is wrong to allow Sir John Chilcot to decide whether evide...
Paul Flynn | 494 c818 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Patrick Mercer | 494 c819 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Bernard Jenkin | 494 c819 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 494 c818-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, because I know that many Members wish to speak. If the hon. Gentleman ...
David Miliband | 494 c820 (Link to this contribution) The whole experience will be examined, from 2001 to 2009. Precisely because nothing is ruled out and...
Patrick Mercer | 494 c820 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Foreign Secretary. The Chief of the General Staff has made clear in the n...
David Miliband | 494 c820 (Link to this contribution) I was going to conclude my speech, but I will give way to the hon. Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer...
David Miliband | 494 c820 (Link to this contribution) I am going to bring my remarks to a conclusion. I have been speaking for 25 minutes, and many right ...
David Miliband | 494 c820 (Link to this contribution) As I said to the hon. Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) at the beginning that I would give way to him...
Gordon Prentice | 494 c820 (Link to this contribution) I thank my friend. I listened carefully to what he said earlier, but I am still not clear about whet...
David Miliband | 494 c820 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that my hon. Friend has any difficulty in understanding the phrase "as much as possib...
Paul Flynn | 494 c820-1 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary clarify the answer that he gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock ...
David Miliband | 494 c821 (Link to this contribution) No. I would interpret it as indicating that my hon. Friend supports the Government amendment, which ...
David Miliband | 494 c821 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman, although I do not know why I am doing so.
Harry Cohen | 494 c821 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 494 c821 (Link to this contribution) I honestly think that the hon. Gentleman must have been talking too much to his colleagues during th...
Harry Cohen | 494 c821 (Link to this contribution) I just want to ask this question: will the inquiry be able to call witnesses who are not of UK origi...
David Miliband | 494 c822 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to give an unabashed and unwavering affirmative answer to my hon. Friend on that iss...
David Heath | 494 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) I should start by offering the apologies of my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr....
David Miliband | 494 c822 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that Sir John Chilcot had no objection to the announcement the Prime Minister ma...
Lynne Jones | 494 c822 (Link to this contribution) All I would like to know is whether, when the Prime Minister consulted Sir John Chilcot about the in...
David Miliband | 494 c822 (Link to this contribution) No, I am sorry but I will not give way. My hon. Friend can speak later in the debate and—[Interrupti...
Lynne Jones | 494 c822 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Heath | 494 c823-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes, if it had been possible to hold none of it in public, I think that would have been exactly the ...
David Heath | 494 c824 (Link to this contribution) Yes, as my hon. Friend says, he does not do that here. He just allows it to be known that the Govern...
Richard Shepherd | 494 c823 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman not struck by the fact that in the United States there have been a number of i...
David Heath | 494 c823 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. In both America and other European countries, there have not apparently...
David Heath | 494 c824-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. When in doubt, a blanket will be drawn over proceedings. We heard the q...
David Heath | 494 c825 (Link to this contribution) Of course they do, and I am glad that my hon. Friend makes that point. Sadly, there are grieving fam...
John Barrett | 494 c825 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that another group of people would like to see the inquiry held in public?...
Marquess of Lothian | 494 c832-3 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree, except obviously for particular matters where national security might be at stak...
Philip Davies | 494 c832 (Link to this contribution) Flight-Lieutenant Stead was killed in the Iraq war when his Hercules did not have the proper suppres...
Marquess of Lothian | 494 c832 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be called, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall be brief, as many of the points I wished to ...
Tony Wright | 494 c830-1 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I was completely misled by what was said in the House at the time. I am sure that closer ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 494 c830 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's record on these matters is impeccable and I apologise for interrupting him in m...
Tony Wright | 494 c829-30 (Link to this contribution) Following that injunction, I think that we should all try not to revisit the substantive arguments a...
David Heath | 494 c828-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I am delighted to say to him that if he is in the House on 7...
Tony Wright | 494 c828 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to be additionally helpful on that point. Surely the essential difficulty is that the Inq...
Paul Flynn | 494 c847-8 (Link to this contribution) We all remember well the day of the vote itself. To their great credit, six Conservative Members vot...
Speaker | 494 c847 (Link to this contribution) As I am sure the hon. Gentleman realises, the Chair cannot comment on that matter. There is a repres...
David Heath | 494 c847 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am very sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman in the cour...
Robert Marshall-Andrews | 494 c842-4 (Link to this contribution) Many art forms thrive as a result of warfare, but none more, as a result of the Iraq war, than the a...
Iain Duncan Smith | 494 c840-2 (Link to this contribution) First, I draw attention to my declarations of interest and apologise to the Government and Oppositio...
Mike Gapes | 494 c838-9 (Link to this contribution) When we heard last week's announcement that there would be an inquiry, I had two concerns: first, ab...
Paul Flynn | 494 c846-7 (Link to this contribution) The main reason for my vote tonight will be based on whether Parliament is going to assert itself in...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 494 c844-6 (Link to this contribution) Not for the first time, I find myself in complete agreement with the hon. and learned Member for Med...
Robert Marshall-Andrews | 494 c844 (Link to this contribution) My good and hon. Friend shakes his head when I say that, but let us have an inquiry to find out, and...
Malcolm Rifkind | 494 c836-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) put his finger on it when he said that 30 years after...
Gavin Strang | 494 c835-6 (Link to this contribution) I asked the question in the context not just of our being Members of the House of Commons but of our...
Malcolm Rifkind | 494 c837-8 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely convinced that Sir John Chilcot has changed his mind. I have no doubt that, as the...
Lynne Jones | 494 c837 (Link to this contribution) If Sir John Chilcot had been uneasy about the Prime Minister's decision that the inquiry should be c...
David Winnick | 494 c834 (Link to this contribution) If I gave the impression that there are hon. Members who do not condemn terrorism, I am sorry and I ...
Gavin Strang | 494 c833-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary rightly referred to the fatalities of the war, including ...
Clare Short | 494 c834 (Link to this contribution) Many of those who cautioned against the war said that there was a grave danger of the outbreak of ch...
Gavin Strang | 494 c834 (Link to this contribution) We also have to remember that it is not just a matter of the deaths, as so many people have been inj...
Bernard Jenkin | 494 c821 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Malcolm Rifkind | 494 c806 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the most outstanding continuing defect in the Government's prop...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c806 (Link to this contribution) Sir John Chilcot has been placed in a difficult position by the ill-prepared announcement that was m...
Bill Rammell | 494 c901 (Link to this contribution) The House has the opportunity and the right to decide this evening. Having started on the basis—[In...
David Miliband | 494 c815 (Link to this contribution) May I make some progress? Then I will happily bring in further comments and questions.
David Miliband | 494 c818 (Link to this contribution) Sir John has made it clear that there are ways in which he can invite the witnesses to make some kin...
Bernard Jenkin | 494 c821 (Link to this contribution) May I put it to the right hon. Gentleman that, notwithstanding all the expertise that he has mention...
John Baron | 494 c824 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that this episode not only reveals the mindset of the Prime Minister, but illustrates yet ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c803 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a related point, although not one immediately relevant to the motion. It was a ...
Greg Mulholland | 494 c876 (Link to this contribution) It seems a long time since 15 February 2003. Much has changed for me in that time. I was then not an...
Bill Rammell | 494 c900-1 (Link to this contribution) Because I believe that there is sufficient expertise on the committee of inquiry. Sir John Chilcot h...
Bill Rammell | 494 c898 (Link to this contribution) I am making it clear how we have listened and responded, how the inquiry will be conducted and how t...
Andrew Mackinlay | 494 c898 (Link to this contribution) What about the oath? Answer the point about the oath.
Gavin Strang | 494 c834-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think that there is a consensus there. The Government amendment makes explicit reference to ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c807-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I have described what the terms of reference should be several times in debates over the past t...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 494 c802 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Lady appreciates the gusto, although if she has been listening to my speech ...
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Armed forces Armed conflict Deployment Inquiries Iraq Foreign policy Military alliances Iraq Committee of Inquiry
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