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Bills Presented: Afghanistan and Pakistan (16 Jul 2009) has video

Edward Davey: The hon. Member for Lanark and Hamilton, East (Mr. Hood) was quite right to remind us about the veterans who return from Iraq, Afghanistan or any other theatre of conflict bearing not physical but mental scars, and I hope that the charity in his constituency goes from strength to strength in supporting those soldiers. There remains a broad consensus in this House on key aspects of the policy...

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Iraq Committee of Inquiry: Finance (13 Jul 2009)

Edward Davey: To ask the Prime Minister (1) how much funding he expects to allocate to the Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq; (2) how many staff the Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq will have; (3) whether witnesses to the Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq will be permitted legal representation; and if he will make a statement; (4) which experts have been appointed to assist the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war; (5) if he...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...the Foreign Secretary set out all the arguments for an early inquiry and then proceeded to try to demolish them, in much the same way as Tony Blair set out the arguments against going to war with Iraq and tried to demolish them in that famous debate. Both attempts were flawed, although it is interesting to note that Tony Blair and the Foreign Secretary used different debating tactics. In...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...of our troops, the Ministry of Defence or DFID would apply equally to the fact that we have operations ongoing in Afghanistan. Indeed, those operations are far more serious than those under way in Iraq. My hon. Friend makes a powerful point and the Government have no answer to it.

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...way that everyone else had clearly missed—the lessons had already been learned. According to the Foreign Secretary, there had been two studies by the Ministry of Defence of the operations in Iraq. There had been internal reviews. The Foreign Secretary said with a straight face that the civil service and armed forces continually adjusted and updated their strategies in the light of...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: I think they would. I am not so sure whether that would fit in with this particular inquiry, as I shall discuss later. We need to be careful about the remit of the Iraq inquiry. The hon. Gentleman makes an important point and the Liberal Democrats are very much in favour of a strategic defence review that might deal with some of the points to which he alluded. The Foreign Secretary tried to...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...also on his key advisers and members of the Cabinet and the civil service. Parliament will also be examined, including the role of Opposition parties and individual MPs. Whether one agreed with the Iraq war back in 2003—or whether, with the benefit of hindsight, one agrees with it now, or thinks that today's world is safer as a result— no one can doubt its historic...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...to tackle. This question goes to the heart of the legal and political case made for war, and it is one that could have massive implications in the future. I am referring to the issue of how close Iraq was to manufacturing nuclear weapons. Much attention has focused on the notorious 45-minute claim, yet there has been much less publicity over what seems to me to be the critical question of...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...what will happen—the legacy question—if and when Labour loses. The Prime Minister had the chance to clear the decks immediately he came to office. He could have broken with Tony Blair's Iraq war legacy and started to rebuild public trust with an inquiry into the war. In the process, he would have built a stronger legacy of his own, but he failed; he ducked that chance and...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: The Foreign Secretary mentioned the operations of the British forces in Iraq. Can he say how many personnel, based in Iraq, London or elsewhere, would be involved in any inquiry? What would be the problem with replacing those people so that they were free to engage in an inquiry now?

[Joan Walley in the Chair] — Iran (4 Mar 2009)

Edward Davey: ...Iran wants to attack the rest of the world—perhaps Israel or somewhere else? Is it because it feels particularly insecure and thinks that it will be attacked? It has seen the American army in Iraq, and NATO in Afghanistan. It has also seen the instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and it knows that Israel has a bomb. Perhaps the Iranian leadership is worried that someone might...

United States of America (10 Feb 2009)

Edward Davey: ...the White House, but with the whole American political system. More importantly, it is about our relationship with the American people. In the US Senate, President Obama voted against the war for Iraq. What is our influence with him? I am sure that it will be great. We need to explain our position, and I am sure that he will look at us objectively. Hopefully, he will look at us in a...

Gaza (15 Jan 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...radicalising, and will radicalise, people across the world. They are being radicalised not just against Israel, but against the west. They are blaming us too, as happened with the disastrous war in Iraq. For our security and global security, we need to use foreign policy to prevent a further spurt in the growth of extremism throughout the world. What should that pressure be? We started...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...Member for Pontypridd (Dr. Howells) has made a powerful speech, and he will be surprised to learn that I agreed with quite a bit of it. I particularly agreed with his point about the talents of the Iraqi people. My constituency contains a number of Iraqis who came to this country fleeing both the tyranny of Saddam and the chaos of Iraq since the Kurdish-run forces invaded. One Iraqi asylum...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...the hon. Gentleman said and will make one or two points about it shortly, it is clear from the opinion polls that I have seen—conducted by American academic institutions that study opinion in Iraq—that there is no homogenous view that everything is rosier, and that the coalition troops are welcome in Iraq. Far from it: according to the latest analysis of opinion by the...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...the Secretary of State said about the role and expertise of the British armed forces. We completely agree that the British armed forces have done a fantastic job; whether or not we agree with the Iraq war, we can put aside such disagreements in acknowledging how fantastic and world-leading our troops have been in the way they have gone about their security tasks and helped to rebuild Iraq....

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...hon. Member for North-East Hampshire (Mr. Arbuthnot). I think his Conservative colleagues agree that that was a UK political decision, and that it was not, perhaps, supported by the generals or the Iraqi Government. Indeed, colleagues of mine who have gone to Iraq and talked to Prime Minister al-Maliki and others get the impression that the Iraqis were never terribly keen on how we behaved...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Edward Davey: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. I know that she has been working tirelessly on behalf of the relatives of her constituents who are in Iraq. I hope that Ministers can give her some reassurance later in the debate. There are other uncertainties ahead, as well as those on security. There is uncertainty about the fragile state of Iraqi democracy. One hopes that this month's...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Edward Davey: In one way, I hope that the hon. Gentleman's assessment is right. There are some hon. Members whose support for the Iraq war comes from the neo-conservative ideology that led us into it but who may disagree with his timetable. When Liberal Democrat Members, and some of the nationalist parties, argued for a timetable for withdrawal, we were criticised by the Government and Conservative Members...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Edward Davey: I am grateful for that intervention. I am sure that hon. Members are aware of that. We hope that Iraq will have the rosy future that the Secretary of State outlined, but we must be slightly less Panglossian about what is happening in Iraq today. To be fair, the Secretary of State admitted that many people are still dying. Hundreds died last year in bombings carried out not just by terrorists...