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Debate on Monday, 21 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton. The answering member was Ed Miliband.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973

Debate on a motion on Libya and to welcome United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1973. Agreed on division (557 to 13).

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
525 c700-806 
Session
2010-12
Department
Prime Minister
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 525 c700 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that I have not selected the amendment. The House might be interested to know tha...
Speaker | 525 c784 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, I inform the House that I will take one more six-minute speec...
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Ben Wallace | 525 c730 (Link to this contribution) I fully understand why we intervened in Libya. Because of our actions today, on Friday and over the ...
Jim Dowd | 525 c728-30 (Link to this contribution) Obviously we are all constrained by time, but these are grave matters not only for the people of Lib...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 525 c727-8 (Link to this contribution) On 18 March 2003, just over eight years ago, I voted against military action against Saddam Hussein....
Bob Ainsworth | 525 c726-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way. On Afghanistan, 360 British lives and many consequences later, but not ...
Bob Ainsworth | 525 c726 (Link to this contribution) indicated dissent. One hundred and seventy-nine British lives and a lot of other consequences later...
Ben Wallace | 525 c730-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. It is all about trust, and we therefore need an element of transparency...
Jason McCartney | 525 c730 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition for an...
Jack Straw | 525 c732 (Link to this contribution) Two weeks ago, I re-watched ““Hotel Rwanda””, the chilling film portrayal of the massacres of the de...
Ed Miliband | 525 c723-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall finish, as others want to come in. It is essential that both we and multilateral institutio...
David Burrowes | 525 c725 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?
Malcolm Rifkind | 525 c724-5 (Link to this contribution) Nothing could demonstrate more eloquently the difference between the ill-conceived Iraq war and this...
Joan Ruddock | 525 c723 (Link to this contribution) On the point about our public pronouncements, my right hon. Friend will have seen headlines such as ...
Ed Miliband | 525 c723 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is entirely right that we must exercise extreme care in all our public pronounc...
Malcolm Rifkind | 525 c725-6 (Link to this contribution) We have such limited time that my hon. Friend will have to forgive me for not giving way. The third...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 525 c738 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. On Friday I asked whether the aims of resolution 1973 were impossible to reach unl...
Jack Straw | 525 c737-8 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is, of course, correct to say that ““getting rid of Gaddafi”” is not part o...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 525 c737 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Mr Havard), who is Vice-C...
Speaker | 525 c736 (Link to this contribution) Order. I call James Arbuthnot.
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 525 c739-40 (Link to this contribution) I was present on Friday when the Prime Minister made his statement to the House. We had a lengthy di...
Graham Allen | 525 c739 (Link to this contribution) May I correct the hon. Gentleman? This House is not taking any decisions: the Government have alread...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 525 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the Chairman of the Defence Committee, the right hon. Member for North Eas...
Stephen Lloyd | 525 c741 (Link to this contribution) On that point, does my hon. Friend agree that it is incredibly significant that both the Arab League...
Rory Stewart | 525 c741 (Link to this contribution) I agree very strongly. That is immensely significant, but the meaning of that needs to be clear. The...
Rory Stewart | 525 c740-1 (Link to this contribution) This is not something that began in Libya, and it will not end in Libya. It came out of a regional s...
Martin Horwood | 525 c732 (Link to this contribution) I worked for Oxfam at the time of the Rwanda crisis and I strongly remember the awful situation in w...
Jack Straw | 525 c732-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman anticipates what I was going to say, but I am happy to put that on the record, no...
Richard Graham | 525 c732 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the efforts and success of our diplomats in the UN Security...
Andy Slaughter | 525 c735 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Kris Hopkins | 525 c734-5 (Link to this contribution) Having watched these debates and diplomacy since the Falklands war, and having observed the battles ...
Dai Havard | 525 c735-6 (Link to this contribution) I would like to say something about the resolution and the immediate deployments, and then perhaps s...
Kris Hopkins | 525 c735 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way. I said that this was a decision that I do not take lightly, and I do no...
David Burrowes | 525 c736 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Dai Havard | 525 c736 (Link to this contribution) No, I am sorry but time will not allow me to do so. Let me say something about the exit strategy. W...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c720 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the passing of UN Security Council resolution 1973 represen...
Graham Stringer | 525 c719 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend and the Prime Minister have both enunciated what is really the Blair doctrine “...
Ed Miliband | 525 c720 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the Prime Minister and I are competing to call it the Blair doctrine. On the subs...
Ed Miliband | 525 c719 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend has been one of the leading voices on the question of Yemen, and he...
Ed Miliband | 525 c719 (Link to this contribution) I will make a bit more progress. Many will ask one additional question: why are we intervening in Li...
Keith Vaz | 525 c719 (Link to this contribution) It is obviously right that we should focus on Libya today, but as my right hon. Friend knows, the si...
Julian Lewis | 525 c719 (Link to this contribution) I have supported humanitarian interventions in the past, and I am minded to do the same in this case...
Ed Miliband | 525 c719 (Link to this contribution) I have been given those reassurances by the Prime Minister. Today, as the House debates this questio...
Matthew Offord | 525 c718 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talks about the important matter of targeting by the allies in the attacks ...
Ed Miliband | 525 c718-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman speaks eloquently to the evil of Colonel Gaddafi in doing that. The care taken by...
Nadhim Zahawi | 525 c717 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that one way in which we can help the Libyan people and the rebe...
Ed Miliband | 525 c717 (Link to this contribution) This is a very tricky issue, but let me respond to the hon. Gentleman. In a joint statement with Pre...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 525 c717 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's reference to Kosovo is entirely apt because it was out of the frustration...
Ed Miliband | 525 c718 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman has huge expertise in this area and he makes an important point...
John Baron | 525 c717 (Link to this contribution) Compliance with the UN resolution might not equal an endgame. What does the right hon. Gentleman pro...
Ed Miliband | 525 c717 (Link to this contribution) I am going to talk about that in my speech as well, but I want to respond directly to the hon. Gentl...
Ed Miliband | 525 c723 (Link to this contribution) In the end, we have to look at that on a case-by-case basis, and the responsibility to protect looks...
Ed Miliband | 525 c722-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. It is very important in all our public pronouncements that ...
Bill Esterson | 525 c721 (Link to this contribution) The point about regular scrutiny of what happens is incredibly important, not just to hon. Members b...
Ed Miliband | 525 c722 (Link to this contribution) Not for the moment. I say to the Government—and the Prime Minister will know this—it is incredibly ...
Clive Efford | 525 c722 (Link to this contribution) The point that my right hon. Friend is making is important. Gaddafi could prove to be very difficult...
Ed Miliband | 525 c721-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend probably speaks for many hon. Members from all parts of the House who went back to ta...
Rehman Chishti | 525 c722 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Miliband | 525 c720-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some more progress. I will try to give way before the end of my speech, but I am cons...
Andrew George | 525 c721 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) and other hon. Members have mentioned the concept of a suc...
Ed Miliband | 525 c721 (Link to this contribution) That is a question that the Government will no doubt be seeking to answer in the days and weeks ahea...
Fiona Mactaggart | 525 c721 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right to say that it will be hard to know when we should end this action. Wi...
Ed Miliband | 525 c721 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend probably speaks for Members across the House, and Ministers will have he...
Ed Miliband | 525 c720 (Link to this contribution) I think it is too early to declare it a watershed moment, but the hon. Gentleman is right to suggest...
David Winnick | 525 c720 (Link to this contribution) That Gaddafi is a murderous tyrant has never been in doubt from the time he seized power in 1969. Li...
Ed Miliband | 525 c720 (Link to this contribution) It is hard to calibrate the different regimes, but I believe that Colonel Gaddafi's threat to hundre...
Angus Robertson | 525 c720 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Jo Swinson | 525 c744 (Link to this contribution) Eight years ago, this House discussed intervention in Iraq. I was not a Member of Parliament at the ...
David Burrowes | 525 c744 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is important not to pigeonhole the support from the Council of the...
Rory Stewart | 525 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) That is a very important danger. The fact that Libya is not just an Arab country, but a country with...
Natascha Engel | 525 c742-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak after one of the best speeches that ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 525 c741 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of the risks is that it might be said on the Arab street that...
William Cash | 525 c715 (Link to this contribution) In the context of the important issue of arming those who are resisting Gaddafi, does the right hon....
Ed Miliband | 525 c716 (Link to this contribution) I have great respect for the right hon. Gentleman, but I do not agree that this is a civil war. Ther...
Ed Miliband | 525 c717 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal with those two very serious points. On the first point about arms exports, we have right...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c716-7 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that, although what he is saying is of great importance, there ar...
Robert Halfon | 525 c715 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not agree that, in part, we are where we are because of the actions of...
Ed Miliband | 525 c715 (Link to this contribution) As the Prime Minister said when we discussed the issue a week or so ago, we need to be cautious and ...
Lord Redwood | 525 c716 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition is making a very thoughtful case. Can he tell us how much intervention ...
Ed Miliband | 525 c715-6 (Link to this contribution) To be fair to the Prime Minister, he conducted this debate in the right terms. Let me say to the hon...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c708 (Link to this contribution) We are obviously extremely disturbed by what is happening in Yemen, particularly recent events. We u...
Andrew George | 525 c708 (Link to this contribution) The legal note that accompanies the debate makes it clear that the Security Council resolution recog...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c708 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman puts it absolutely correctly. We know what our job is—to enforce the UN's will. I...
Speaker | 525 c709 (Link to this contribution) Order. We need to be clear who is intervening. I think it is the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil and ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c709 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. We want to internationalise the action to the maximum degree ...
Martin Horwood | 525 c708 (Link to this contribution) May I express from the Liberal Democrat Benches our strong support for the resolution and the Govern...
Dai Havard | 525 c709 (Link to this contribution) The legal advice summary, which I have only just seen—we have not seen the whole thing—clearly exclu...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c709-10 (Link to this contribution) The point about the legal advice, which refers back to the UN Security Council resolution, is that i...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c707 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, but the UN resolution could not be clearer about no occupyi...
Daniel Byles | 525 c707 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has been pressed to rule out putting any boots on the ground as part of the opera...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c706 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr Cash), and then I will make some more progress...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c706 (Link to this contribution) I would answer that question in two ways. First, if we had waited for that, Benghazi would have fall...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c706 (Link to this contribution) What we have provided, which I do not think any Government have done before, is a note on the legal ...
William Cash | 525 c706 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend knows that I am strongly supportive of the actions that he has taken, and he de...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c707 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the leader of the Green party.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c707 (Link to this contribution) I will take as many interventions as I can, but before I give way any more, let me turn to some of t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c707 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an important point, which we have discussed several times during statements and ...
Caroline Lucas | 525 c707 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Prime Minister. I am sure he would agree that any military action needs to be p...
Toby Perkins | 525 c708 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister should know that he has the support of the vast majority of Members of all partie...
John Baron | 525 c706 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way. Given our poor record of intervention in...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c706 (Link to this contribution) A successful outcome is the enforcement of the will of the UN, which is the ceasing of attacks on ci...
Emily Thornberry | 525 c706 (Link to this contribution) What would be a successful outcome to this military action, and is it possible that it could take a ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c705 (Link to this contribution) I could not have been more clear that we do not use those weapons and are not going to use those wea...
John McDonnell | 525 c705 (Link to this contribution) I almost thought that the Prime Minister was about to support our amendment in total, but I live in ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c704-5 (Link to this contribution) The point that I would make is that this matter was discussed in the UN Security Council and the Chi...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c704 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will be aware that the Chinese Government have called for a special meeting of th...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c703 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, the entire aim of the no-fly zone is to stop the attacks from the air by Gaddafi on his o...
Elfyn Llwyd | 525 c703 (Link to this contribution) May I say that I am very pleased that the Government have sought a UN resolution, thus making interv...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c703 (Link to this contribution) What I can guarantee is that we will stick to the terms of the UN resolution, which absolutely and s...
Ronnie Campbell | 525 c703 (Link to this contribution) The resolution says that all necessary measures will be taken. Can the Prime Minister guarantee that...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c702 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman and then make some progress.
Joan Ruddock | 525 c702 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Prime Minister. He will know that, at the moment, the military action is e...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c702 (Link to this contribution) I think the right hon. Lady makes an excellent point. I spoke to the secretary-general of the Arab L...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c702 (Link to this contribution) I will take a few more interventions—first, the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Russell).
Bob Russell | 525 c702 (Link to this contribution) In view of the obviously barbaric attacks by Gaddafi on his own people, does the Prime Minister agre...
Tony Lloyd | 525 c702 (Link to this contribution) I think the Prime Minister carries the overwhelming majority on the urgent need to take action to pr...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c702 (Link to this contribution) The action will be limited by what the UN Security Council resolution says. As far as I am concerned...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. The first resolution we passed—1970—specifically referr...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c700-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House welcomes United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1973; depl...
Angus Robertson | 525 c701 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Prime Minister for allowing an intervention. A great many people in this House ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c701 (Link to this contribution) I certainly want to build and maintain, in this House, throughout this country and, indeed right acr...
Sam Gyimah | 525 c714 (Link to this contribution) With a no-fly zone in operation, a tyrant as brutal and determined as Gaddafi could decide to move t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c713-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and that is why UN Security Council resolution 1973 cou...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c714 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way any more. Gaddafi has had every conceivable opportunity to stop massacring his ...
Ed Miliband | 525 c714-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support the Government motion. Let me first welcome the fact that the Government have deci...
Robert Halfon | 525 c713 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way and for the leadership that he has shown on this issue. ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c713 (Link to this contribution) Let me say one more word about the issue of planning for the humanitarian situation. It is important...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c713 (Link to this contribution) On a wider point, it is a change in philosophy on the part of the UN and the international community...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c713 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an issue of real concern, on which we keep a very sharp focus. After Gaddafi s...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c712 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who has considerable expertise and has taken a great interest in this matter, makes ...
Graham Stringer | 525 c712 (Link to this contribution) I am sceptical about this country's involvement in air raids on another Muslim and Arab country. How...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c711 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that everyone in the House would want to pay tribute to the risks taken by, and the braver...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c711-2 (Link to this contribution) I will make some progress, and take a few more interventions before the end. There are also some wh...
Daniel Kawczynski | 525 c712 (Link to this contribution) Should the Gaddafi regime finally be toppled, will the Prime Minister assure us that his Government ...
Mark Pritchard | 525 c711 (Link to this contribution) In addition to brutalising his own people, is it not the case that the Gaddafi regime is daily haras...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c711 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not saying that. I am saying that at the moment there is basically American command and con...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c710 (Link to this contribution) For once, I agree with the hon. Gentleman—I entirely agree with the first part of his question, beca...
David Lammy | 525 c711 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Prime Minister back to what he said about NATO? Is he confirming that when the US giv...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c710 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner), but then make some progress.
Dennis Skinner | 525 c710 (Link to this contribution) It is easy to get into a war; it is much harder to end it. When will all those nations that are taki...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c710 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point about humanitarian planning for afterwards, which ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c710 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my parliamentary neighbour.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 525 c710 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on obtaining the UN resolution to give us the legal cover that...
Michael Connarty | 525 c775 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is listening to the cries for help from the people of Bahrain wh...
David Morris | 525 c775 (Link to this contribution) Because it is the right thing to do; that is why.
David Morris | 525 c774-5 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend the Member for North Warwickshire (Dan Byles), I will vote very reluctantly. Eve...
Caroline Lucas | 525 c776-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this crucial debate. I also welcome the opportunity to pa...
Paul Uppal | 525 c777-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to the debate this evening. It has been...
David Morris | 525 c775-6 (Link to this contribution) It is the right thing to do at this time and in this case. Let me tell the House a story of which I...
Geraint Davies | 525 c779-80 (Link to this contribution) I support the UN no-fly zone and the early intervention to take out Gaddafi's machinery for the mass...
Robert Buckland | 525 c778 (Link to this contribution) Is it not striking to note that the preamble to the lengthy and comprehensive resolution 1973 determ...
Paul Uppal | 525 c778-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the point very eloquently and I could not agree with him more wholeheartedly. ...
Mike Gapes | 525 c769-70 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to follow the hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis), because he gave what I thought w...
Thomas Docherty | 525 c770 (Link to this contribution) Given the previous US regime's role, does my hon. Friend accept that if the US President had been in...
Mike Gapes | 525 c770-1 (Link to this contribution) I do accept that, but I think the US Administration left it pretty late before finally making up the...
Edward Leigh | 525 c771-2 (Link to this contribution) I have some reservations about what we are doing. I am pleased to see the Foreign Secretary in his p...
Julian Lewis | 525 c772 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend raised that point, which I did not have time to raise. Although it is ...
Edward Leigh | 525 c772-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the point. We could have had a carrier just 100 miles off the coast. The Prime ...
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 525 c773 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend welcome, as I would, an absolute assurance from the Government that if they fee...
Edward Leigh | 525 c773 (Link to this contribution) I have already said that that is a very important constitutional point. I know that I am just a Hous...
Graham Allen | 525 c767-8 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Will you speak to Mr Speaker to ensure that the rights of th...
John McDonnell | 525 c766 (Link to this contribution) I am saying that we should secure peace now that the conflict has started. I oppose Britain's involv...
Speaker | 525 c766 (Link to this contribution) Order. Passing reference to the amendment is allowed, but we must not have a detailed debate on it.
Julian Lewis | 525 c768-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend agrees that it was disgraceful. I looked on with horror and impotence while the worl...
Julian Lewis | 525 c768 (Link to this contribution) If I am to follow the good example of those engaging in genuine debate, I should refer to previous c...
Speaker | 525 c768 (Link to this contribution) There was an amendment on the Order Paper, but it was not selected by Mr Speaker. However, the hon. ...
Graham Allen | 525 c762 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend as concerned as I am about the composition of what is currently called ““the rebel...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valuable point. I do not know the politics, aims, ambitions or anything else ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 525 c763 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that action in Libya now helps the case for action in the countries ...
John McDonnell | 525 c765-6 (Link to this contribution) I found it touching that the hon. Member for Keighley (Kris Hopkins) and others expressed trepidatio...
Mike Gapes | 525 c766 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says that we should do everything we can to avoid conflict, but the conflict has alre...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c763 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that it does because the economic interests in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain far outweig...
Stephen Gilbert | 525 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) We clearly live in interesting times. It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Islington North...
William Cash | 525 c764 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that people in Benghazi could still be massacred unless they are allow...
Stephen Gilbert | 525 c764-5 (Link to this contribution) To some extent, I share the hon. Gentleman's analysis that resolution 1973 could institutionalise st...
Graham Allen | 525 c800 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c799-800 (Link to this contribution) I will mention the hon. Gentleman in a moment, so he can intervene then, but I am trying in a very s...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c800-2 (Link to this contribution) I will not. I give way hundreds of times in other debates, but I am trying to answer the points made...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c797-9 (Link to this contribution) We have heard 50 speeches tonight, and I have listened to the vast majority of them. Every single on...
Jim Dowd | 525 c799 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Douglas Alexander | 525 c794-7 (Link to this contribution) That issue has already been the subject of some debate in the House today. The terms of the Security...
Robert Halfon | 525 c794 (Link to this contribution) Would the right hon. Gentleman support at some stage giving arms to the opposition to Gaddafi?
Douglas Alexander | 525 c794 (Link to this contribution) I believe that this debate has done justice to the seriousness of the motion before the House this e...
Andy Slaughter | 525 c791-2 (Link to this contribution) I returned last night from a visit to Egypt, where I had the privilege of seeing Egyptian democracy ...
Robert Halfon | 525 c791 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the debate and want to make three points, given the time available. I want to consider why...
Diane Abbott | 525 c790 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to have the opportunity to speak in this important debate. I congratulate my hon. Friend t...
Bob Russell | 525 c789-90 (Link to this contribution) Gaddafi will not lose any sleep over anything that is said in the House, but I hope that those aroun...
Yasmin Qureshi | 525 c788-9 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to all the Members who have spoken in this debate since 3.30 this afternoon. I rise ...
Bob Stewart | 525 c787-8 (Link to this contribution) Colonel Gaddafi does not do peaceful. Benghazi may be relatively safe for the moment, but what about...
David Lammy | 525 c784-5 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, all war is evil, and we should remember that when we talk about the business of war. But so...
Thomas Docherty | 525 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) It is sobering to think that, as we debate this motion tonight and allied aircraft are yet again dep...
Richard Drax | 525 c785-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy). First and foremost, my ...
Barry Gardiner | 525 c781-2 (Link to this contribution) I hope that, in a few weeks, the House will be able to rejoice that Gaddafi has gone. Few dictators ...
Christopher Pincher | 525 c780-1 (Link to this contribution) I begin by paying tribute to the air crews and other servicemen and women who, as we engage in jaw-j...
James Morris | 525 c783-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, and everyone who, with patience and pai...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c753 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman, whose speech I am listening to very carefully. He asks us ...
David Winnick | 525 c753 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed. Only a few weeks ago, a resolution passed by the United Nations, including the British...
David Winnick | 525 c752-3 (Link to this contribution) The action started late on Saturday. We could have met on Saturday; we have done so on previous occa...
Richard Drax | 525 c752 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that, if we had delayed such action any longer, which he wanted to d...
David Winnick | 525 c752 (Link to this contribution) I wish we could have had this debate before military action had been taken. I referred to that on a ...
Alun Cairns | 525 c760-1 (Link to this contribution) Like all Members, I am worried and concerned about activities in and surrounding Libya. I am worried...
Michael Meacher | 525 c759-60 (Link to this contribution) There is nothing to stop those countries joining a coalition now, and I am not at all sure that it r...
Michael Meacher | 525 c758-9 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that without UN resolution 1973, there would have been appalling blood-letting in Bengha...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 525 c757-8 (Link to this contribution) The more serious the situation, the better this House responds. That has been proved by some very fi...
Geraint Davies | 525 c759 (Link to this contribution) Would my right hon. Friend be sympathetic in theory to the idea of a future UN resolution giving aut...
David Winnick | 525 c753-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I take the point the Prime Minister makes, but at the same time what about the lack of freedom—...
Madeleine Moon | 525 c755-6 (Link to this contribution) I start, as have many others, by thanking the RAF ground crew and pilots and Royal Navy personnel wh...
Daniel Byles | 525 c754-5 (Link to this contribution) I join other hon. Members in sending my thoughts and prayers to our servicemen and women who are in ...
Graham Allen | 525 c747 (Link to this contribution) Is not the right hon. Gentleman deeply concerned that in this exercise western forces are deployed i...
Elfyn Llwyd | 525 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) I am speaking on behalf of my own party and of the Scottish National party. Unlike the right hon. Me...
Phillip Lee | 525 c747-8 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating Members on their contributions, in particular my hon. Friend the Member fo...
Elfyn Llwyd | 525 c747 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes my point. I am trying to be fairly succinct as we have only a few minutes, ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 525 c749-50 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bracknell (Dr Lee), who correctly highlighted the imp...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 525 c750 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman's contribution and very much hope that he is correct. We must be very a...
Jo Swinson | 525 c744-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right, and the Arab League also made it clear that it did not want a for...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 525 c750-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to contribute to this debate. I have yet to meet a soldier who has been to war who ...
Martin Horwood | 525 c726 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Bob Ainsworth | 525 c726 (Link to this contribution) I am a late and very reluctant supporter of these operations, and that is not because I have become ...
Jack Straw | 525 c732 (Link to this contribution) I was implying no such criticism of the blue hats. The responsibility for what did not happen in Rwa...
Graham Stuart | 525 c723 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Leader of the Opposition who, like the Prime Minister, is giving a powerful and...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c705 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the other author of the amendment.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c704 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress, and then I will take more interventions later. This action was ne...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c703 (Link to this contribution) I am going to take two more interventions before making progress, first from my hon. Friend the Memb...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c714 (Link to this contribution) The resolution gives us the scope to act, but clearly we have to act at all times to minimise civili...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c712-3 (Link to this contribution) Of course there should be regular statements in this House. I gave a statement on Friday and we are ...
Richard Burden | 525 c773-4 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for my absence during the early part of the debate, but along with other hon. Members I ...
John McDonnell | 525 c766-7 (Link to this contribution) May I refer to those points to which the Prime Minister referred? He said that he would support the ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c761-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the debate today. It is important that Parliament plays a key role in deciding whether thi...
Daniel Kawczynski | 525 c750 (Link to this contribution) Immediately after the 1986 bombing of Tripoli there were an estimated 12 coups against Colonel Gadda...
Martin Horwood | 525 c726 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Nadhim Zahawi | 525 c703 (Link to this contribution) Of course, no two campaigns are the same, but there are similarities between this campaign and that ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c703 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right, and he is right to draw attention to the issue of the no-fly zone ...
Bernard Jenkin | 525 c792-3 (Link to this contribution) Brevity demands bluntness, for which I hope the Government will forgive me. I support the motion, bu...
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Armed forces Armed conflict Deployment Air force Legal opinion France Politics and government Military aircraft United Nations USA UN resolutions Civil disorder Libya League of Arab States Gaddafi, Muammar Ceasefires
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