Chilcot Inquiry Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office
Tuesday 6th January 2015

(9 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Portrait Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab)
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My Lords, will the Minister join with me in asking people to stop calling this intervention “illegal”? It has never been declared illegal by any court, national or international, and, since it was the first intervention ever to be approved by a vote in the House of Commons, it has more authority than any other intervention.

Lord Wallace of Saltaire Portrait Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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My Lords, I was not aware that I, certainly, had ever called it “illegal”.