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Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Shepherd: .... It should explicitly look into the matters of concern affecting a matter of great public policy—going to war. As the Prime Minister tolls out the lives of others who have been sent to Iraq, we are tolling our own bell. We need no servants to inquire; we should be the dynamic in the process of establishing the appropriate form for an inquiry.

Points of Order: Modernisation of the House of Commons (25 Oct 2007) has video

Richard Shepherd: ...;who want to know why no Minister has been held to account, but where is the substantive motion? The Government are unlikely to choose to table one. I think of how this House has handled the war in Iraq; I think of the vitality of the United States Congress in discussing such matters; and I compare it with the leaden way in which debate has proceeded here. In five years, we have...

Scott Report (26 Feb 1996)

Mr Richard Shepherd: ...threatened Europe. Many people in this country are aware that Saddam Hussein is another anathema. Thanks to the Prime Minister, we have an account of how we enhanced the defence capacity of Iraq. I find that deeply and profoundly disturbing. I have tried to list the instances in just the first volume of the report where Sir Richard Scott identified that the Government were intending to...

Scott Report (15 Feb 1996)

Mr Richard Shepherd: ...D4.42, in which Sir Richard Scott observed: The answers to PQs, in both Houses of Parliament, failed to inform Parliament of the current state of Government policy on non-lethal arms sales to Iraq. This failure was deliberate and was an inevitable result of the agreement between the three junior Ministers that no publicity would be given to the decision to adopt a more liberal, or relaxed,...