Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria Debate

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Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria

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A&E Departments: Winter Pressure
Thursday 3rd November 2016

(7 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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My hon. Friend makes an excellent point that I know the whole House will want to echo. The families of our servicemen and women face hardship, anxiety and, of course, terrible personal risk.

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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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What a splendid troika. Tom Tugendhat.

Tom Tugendhat Portrait Tom Tugendhat
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Would my right hon. Friend care to mention whether he feels that the inaction of the west over the crimes being committed in Aleppo has empowered the Russians, should they get the opportunity in coming weeks, to seek further territorial expansion?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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My hon. Friend, who is a student of military history, will probably agree that a critical moment for this House, and indeed for the west, came in 2013 when we could have taken another path. The military space was effectively filled 18 months ago by the Russians, and indeed by Daesh, and we are now living with the consequences of that failure.

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