Debates between Tobias Ellwood and Rishi Sunak during the 2015-2017 Parliament

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Tobias Ellwood and Rishi Sunak
Tuesday 18th October 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tobias Ellwood Portrait Mr Ellwood
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I could speak for an hour on that last question and say how misleading—inadvertently misleading —it is. It does not help us to suggest that somehow what happened in 2011 is applicable to what is happening today. There was a Libyan Government, there was a Prime Minister and there were elections, and many of the international community were asked to leave in 2011-12. After 40 years of misrule under Gaddafi, society is now trying to develop, and that is the challenge we face today.

Rishi Sunak Portrait Rishi Sunak (Richmond (Yorks)) (Con)
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T4. My constituent Nicholas Simpson and five other ex-servicemen are being held in a jail in Chennai. May I urge my right hon. Friend and the Government to do everything in their power to work with the Indian authorities and resolve this situation for all the families concerned?