Results 1-18 of 18 for iraq speaker:Boris Johnson

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Boris Johnson: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that an inquiry could urgently consider our catastrophic failure before and after the war to protect Iraqi cultural heritage from systematic looting, which is devastating Iraq? If the Iraqis are to have any hope of rebuilding their country, that looting must be stopped. What have we in mind to prevent that? The Department for Culture, Media and Sport pledged...

Deportations (Zimbabwe) (7 Feb 2007)

Boris Johnson: ...has used about our relations with Africa, it is a scar on the conscience of the Government. It is an act of apathy and betrayal that stands in ghastly contrast to our deluded intervention in Iraq—a country richly endowed with oil, although not, of course, with British farmers and their descendants. I do not want the Minister or anybody to run away with the impression that this is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iraq (5 Dec 2006)

Boris Johnson: If she will make a statement on recent political progress in Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Iraq (5 Dec 2006)

Boris Johnson: What can the Foreign Secretary say to disprove the withering verdict of the US State Department official, Kendall Myers, that Washington has systematically ignored British advice over Iraq? Can she give a single concrete example of any piece of advice given by her or the Prime Minister that was accepted by Washington and without which the catastrophe in Iraq would have been even worse?

Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill (21 Jun 2005)

Boris Johnson: ...of criminal justice and everything to do with politics, as Members throughout the House have already said. The Bill is the price that the country is paying in civil liberties for going to war in Iraq. It is of a piece with control orders and identity cards and is intended partly as a sop to communities that feel particularly oppressed by measures such as those. As the Solicitor-General...

Illicit Trade in Antiquities (26 May 2004)

Mr Boris Johnson: I congratulate the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Allan) on securing this important debate on a subject about which I am passionate. All hon. Members who have spoken so far have alluded to Iraq, which, of course, is very much on our minds at present. Despite all the horrifying images of present-day Iraq, matters might improve eventually in that country. If and when life returns to...

Illicit Trade in Antiquities (26 May 2004)

Mr Boris Johnson: ...for Cultural Policy. That may have been exaggerated. However, many wonderful things were lost and there is still considerable looting. It is only right that the current policy of the people of Iraq should be retentionist in the extreme, to use the jargon. They should hang on to their patrimony.

Illicit Trade in Antiquities (26 May 2004)

Mr Boris Johnson: ...—that may have been stolen. Only if we have that do we have the hope of restitution. It would be a good thing if the database included generic descriptions of things that might have come from Iraq, because the Iraqis do not even know that they have lost many of the things that are currently being traded. I have to make a confession. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam spoke...

Lord Hutton's Report (4 Feb 2004)

Mr Boris Johnson: ...corrupting, for there was a whole series of overt and explicit memos. In the spring and summer of 2002, the intelligence services had produced a fairly cautious document about the state of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. It may be remembered that the original document, which was not published because it was too feeble, said that there was a chemical and biological weapons capability,...

Lord Hutton's Report (4 Feb 2004)

Mr Boris Johnson: ...and was granted a change in the language about the 45-minute claim, so as to drop the word "may", was that because he had some superior knowledge about the state of readiness of weapons in Iraq, or was it, rather, that he was seeking to embellish or, as Gilligan put it, to "sex up" the dossier?

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

Mr Boris Johnson: Given that a vital part of the reconstruction of Iraq is presumably the discovery and removal of weapons of mass destruction, may I remind the Secretary of State of an answer that he gave to me more than six months ago, when I asked him whether the failure to find weapons of mass destruction undermined the legality of the case for war? He gave a four-word answer, which was, "They will be...

Zimbabwe (15 Jul 2003)

Mr Boris Johnson: ...investing Harare airport and the Special Boat Service going up the Limpopo, I do not think that that will happen. I am sure that the Minister has had many discussions with his constituents about Iraq, and there comes a point in any discussion about Iraq when people say, "Well, what about Zimbabwe?" They say that it is inconsistent to displace a tyrant in the middle east but to leave...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Iraq (19 May 2003)

Mr Boris Johnson: In view of the heavy lobbying before the war by powerful organisations representing American collectors for what was euphemistically called a "less retentionist" policy towards treasures in Iraq—and given the vital importance of the treasures in rebuilding the Iraqi tourist industry after the war—what steps will the Secretary of State take to ensure that we have a policy of 100...

Iraq and the Middle East (14 Apr 2003)

Mr Boris Johnson: Given that Iraq is now free, thanks to the heroic efforts of the coalition forces, does the Prime Minister think that any of the tens of thousands of members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party could have a legitimate claim to asylum in this country?

Extradition Bill: New Clause 11 — Passage of Time (25 Mar 2003)

Mr Boris Johnson: ...when we consider how deeply at variance we currently are about one aspect of international law: we cannot agree with the French about the legal status of the action that we are taking in Iraq. There is a huge difference of opinion about the legality of that most vital international operation. How, therefore, can we expect to have consensus and harmony about a great host of minor matters,...

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Boris Johnson: I listen to the hon. Gentleman's point with great interest, but to be frank, I wonder why his party now stands against action to help the people of Iraq, given that its previous leader, Paddy Ashdown, was so vigilant and fierce in his demands for humanitarian action on behalf of the Kosovar Albanians. I find that a very curious reflection on how times have changed for the Liberal Democrats,...

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 429 - External requests and orders (5 Feb 2002)

Mr Boris Johnson: ...they were not. I will not mention the Elgin marbles, Mr. Gale, but it is clear that many things that are legitimately traded in London will be judged by the Governments of other countries, such as Iraq, to be the proceeds of crime. I can imagine that the Iraqi Government—I am sure that they study the text of our Bills in detail—will realise that they can make an external...

Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords] (14 Jan 2002)

Mr Boris Johnson: My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I merely draw it to the House's attention that there are national Christian radio stations in Argentina, New Zealand and even Iraq, I am told. If we are moving to a new era of broad-band radio— the hon. Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Mr. Wyatt) made a good point about electric light and how people did not know how much would be...