Middle East Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Middle East

Imran Hussain Excerpts
Monday 2nd March 2026

(1 day, 8 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Imran Hussain Portrait Imran Hussain (Bradford East) (Lab)
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Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and now this illegal war on Iran—the reality is that time and again we are dragged into conflicts that are illegal, make the region less stable and result in devastation and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children. Have we not learned the lessons of the past? Will the Prime Minister make it clear from the Dispatch Box that Britain is not Trump’s poodle and never again will we be a launch pad for illegal and endless wars that have no plan and no end, and will he make it clear that any final decision will be made by this House?

Keir Starmer Portrait The Prime Minister
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I give my hon. Friend and the House my assurance that I will always act in the British national interest. That is the basis of the two decisions I took this weekend.