Proceeding contribution from Richard Burden (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 26 November 2015. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Syria.
Syria
I thank the Prime Minister for the considered way in which he has approached this statement. If I have understood him correctly, he thinks that the UK’s participation in the existing military action in Syria would fulfil two functions. First, it would disrupt ISIL’s communications to guard against terrorist threats here. Secondly, it would buy time for forces on the ground in Syria to push ISIL/Daesh back, pending a political settlement in that country. On the second point, if ISIL/Daesh was pushed back, what is his best judgment of what forces would be most likely to move in and fill the gap, in advance of the political settlement that he and I want to see?
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- Proceeding contribution
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- 602 c1514
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- 2015-16
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- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Armed conflict Iraq International law Terrorism Foreign Affairs Committee Syria Government responses Military intervention Islamic State
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