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Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (26 Jan 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Is my right hon. Friend aware that, notwithstanding the fact that I voted against the Falklands war, the Iraq war twice and all the rest of them, I find it preposterous that people such as the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) should talk about the Secretary of State for Defence being responsible for every single death while there is a war on? If that had been the case in the past,...

EU-Igc (9 Sep 2003)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Does the Foreign Secretary agree that, since 1 January 1973, the Common Market and the European Union have not been one great big happy family, as has been evidenced by recent events over Iraq as well? Does he also agree that there has been a loss of manufacturing jobs since 1 January 1973, despite the fact that the great visionaries of the Common Market said that that would not happen?...

Business of the House (6 Mar 2003)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...the House will not meet on a Saturday, yet when I came in this morning and asked, "Anything on the agenda?", the staff said, "Yes. There's a distinct possibility that we'll be having a vote about Iraq on a Saturday, so you'd better clear your desk." Is my right hon. Friend ruling that out completely, because, if so, it will be the first time that the staff have been wrong?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (15 Jan 2003)

Mr Dennis Skinner: When the Prime Minister meets the American President at the end of the month, will he tell George Bush that there is almost certainly a majority of the British people against the idea of a war with Iraq? Will he tell him that a lot of the British people are against the war because they can see that it is all about America getting its hands on the oil supplies in the middle east? Will he also...

Iraq (18 Dec 2002)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Are the Government aware that outside this place there is probably a majority of the British people who are against a war on Iraq? That was not true of the Falklands, Kosovo or Afghanistan, and it must worry Ministers as it worries those of us on the Back Benches. Is my right hon. Friend aware that many electors say that this is about a vain American President wanting to complete the job that...

Points of Order (11 May 1998)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...take into account the fact that we do not really need lessons from that discredited bunch opposite about arms and all the rest of it? They were experts in trying to cover up the truth about arms to Iraq, and that applies to most of the Cabinet at the time, so let us get things into perspective. Let us also bear in mind the fact that the same secret services could have been in the same...

Sierra Leone (Arms Sales) (6 May 1998)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...similar to the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg), who was up to his neck in BMARC and the rest of it, and to all those serried ranks who hid behind the arms to Iraq. Unlike them, my right hon. Friend has done the right thing. It is pretty clear to me that the hooray Henrys in the Foreign Office who went to public schools— the same belly of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: European Co-operation (25 Nov 1997)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...get too starry-eyed about European co-operation? We have already heard at today's Question Time that the Common Market is in dispute over the Arab-Israeli argument and there is not agreement about Iraq or about Gibraltar. The reason why there are hundreds of people lobbying for mining jobs today is that when those in the Common Market who took the decisions had the chance to do so, they...

Iraq (14 Nov 1997)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Does my hon. Friend agree that if the narrowly based coalition decides to attack Iraq, the chances of hitting the tyrant Saddam are very small, but that the chances of inflicting death on innocent people, women and kids in Iraq are very high? I note his desire to continue with some form of diplomacy, but will he consider another possibility? When United Nations forces have been sent to other...

Scott Report (15 Feb 1996)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...'s real fear about the Scott report that as many as four witnesses would reveal that the Tory party received arms commissions—money—from some of the firms which were exporting to Iraq and Iran? Did the Tory party receive money from any of those firms and, if so, how much?

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Deregulation (11 Dec 1995)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...ensure that civil servants are kept out of the arguments about political activities, will he guarantee that Sir Robin Butler will not be regarded as the scapegoat to carry the can for the arms to Iraq affair, as was announced in the press last weekend'?

Prayers: French Nuclear Testing (19 Jul 1995)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...the- collapse of the Berlin wall, many people have said that we can all live happily ever after. I have never accepted that naive, innocent view of life. The net result is that countries such as Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel and China are developing nuclear weapons. We in the Labour party, and many others across the world, have been telling them not to develop nuclear weapons...

Kuwait (17 Oct 1994)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Is not one of the most sickening aspects of this affair the fact that the Iraqi arms were sold to Iraq principally by Britain and by France? As the question has not been asked already and as Mark Thatcher was hovering in the background during the supergun affair, may we ask at this moment how much money he has made out of it? That is the question that the Minister should answer.

Business of the House (15 Apr 1993)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...the Leader of the House aware that some of us were incredulous when Baroness Thatcher talked about the innocent little Muslim children, given the way in which she treated those Muslim children in Iraq? When she talks about selling arms, we hear the footsteps of her son the arms salesman and the jingle of Arab money.

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Political Initiatives (21 Jan 1993)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...for Foreign Office questions, I hear that Britain is poking its nose into or is supporting peacekeeping forces in several countries throughout the world, including Croatia, Bosnia, Somalia and Iraq. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman ever consider that one fine day someone might suggest, now that Clinton has been elected, that the United Nations should sort out the problems in...

Points of Order (19 Jan 1993)

Mr Dennis Skinner: .... Yesterday there were a number of points of order arising out of your response to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) when he made a Standing Order No. 20 application about Iraq. I think that it is fair to suggest that your reply left the door ajar. It seems to me—I would like you to respond to this if that is possible—that this business statement today is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Attorney-General: Crown Prosecution Service (16 Nov 1992)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ..., instead of those three people? Is it not a coincidence that that case managed to last over the general election and was sub judice for all that time, so the real truth could not come out about Iraq-gate? If it had, we would have been faced with a different situation in that general election—where the Prime Minister and all the rest of them would have been referred to as the guilty...

Matrix Churchill (10 Nov 1992)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Is not the reality of the matter the fact that, for some time, the Government gave the impression to all and sundry that they were not selling arms to Iraq? Now the truth is out. To what extent does the House expect Ministers to continue in their positions? When do Ministers of this squalid Tory Government resign? We have an example here of at least three Ministers knowing that three men in...

Air-to-Air Missile (3 Mar 1992)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...another example of pork-barrel politics? There have been several references to exports and selling all around the world. We have already heard several times since the Gulf war about selling arms to Iraq and the penalties to be incurred as a result. Does the Secretary of State have a list of prohibited countries to which the weapon will not be sold?

Clause 1: Recognition of Corporate Status of Certain Foreign Corporations (17 Aug 1991)

Mr Dennis Skinner: It is quite remarkable. Are Iraq and Kurdistan catered for?