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Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2007)

George Osborne: My right hon. and learned Friend returns to the familiar theme of Iraq, and perhaps we should save it for a later debate. However, he is right to say that people at home listening to the Chancellor must have assumed that they would be better off as a result of a tax-cutting Budget. What the Chancellor did not tell them was that it was a con trick—that the cut in the standard rate of...

UK Forces (Iraq) (21 Oct 2004)

Mr George Osborne: Of course we must see the job through in Iraq, but is it not unfair to ask regiments such as the Black Watch, or my local regiment, the Cheshires, to serve with such bravery and distinction in Iraq, and then face them with abolition on their return?

Iraq (7 Sep 2004)

Mr George Osborne: One of those personnel is my brother-in-law, who was on leave in August and told me about the good work that the British armed forces are doing in Iraq. Will the Minister join me in paying tribute to my local regiment, the Cheshire regiment, for their work? I agree that we must stay the course, but is he satisfied that the British Army is in a position to deal with a sudden upsurge in...

Armed Forces Personnel (13 May 2004)

Mr George Osborne: The Minister was speaking about the progress in Iraq. When sovereignty is handed over on 30 June, will the new Iraqi Government have exclusive responsibility for Iraqi detainees, for whatever reason they are picked up?

European Council/Libya (29 Mar 2004)

Mr George Osborne: How did the Prime Minister get on with Spanish Prime Minister-elect Zapatero? Has he convinced him that the Iraq war was not a war based on lies? Has he changed the rather unflattering and unrepeatable assessment of him by some of the Spanish Prime Minister-elect's closest advisers?

Libya (5 Jan 2004)

Mr George Osborne: Does the Foreign Secretary remember that some hon. Members argued that action against Iraq would encourage proliferation, as rogue states sought a nuclear guarantee against American and British intervention? Has not Libya's action and indeed the willingness of Iran and North Korea to engage in dialogue demolished yet another anti-war argument?

International Affairs (27 Nov 2003)

Mr George Osborne: That action in Iraq took place without the support of many European Union countries. I welcomed the fact that the Government decided to proceed with the United States in defiance of those European countries. Does the Foreign Secretary agree that on the current draft of the European constitution it would be almost impossible for the UK to take similar action in future?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (3 Nov 2003)

Mr George Osborne: The death of American troops over the weekend has increased the domestic pressure on President Bush to reduce the civilian and military commitment by the United States to post-war Iraq. Does the Secretary of State agree that it is very important that the United States and Britain resist that pressure? What we started in Iraq, with my support, we should now finish.

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr George Osborne: I very much enjoyed the speech I just heard, not least because the hon. Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Mr. Beard) put an excellent neo-Conservative case for the action that was taken in Iraq. Sadly, he has been a lone voice in much of the debate, certainly in terms of Back-Bench contributions, because we have largely heard from people who opposed the war and voted against it, whose...

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr George Osborne: ...with my right hon. Friend, as I agree with him on so many other matters, but he seems to be saying that the House would have come to a different decision in respect of military action against Iraq if hon. Members had examined matters more carefully and had had access to more documents. I do not believe that that was the case. There was an overwhelming majority in the House for military...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (14 Oct 2003)

Mr George Osborne: When he last discussed the situation in Iraq with the US Secretary of State.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (14 Oct 2003)

Mr George Osborne: What the Foreign Secretary says is welcome news, but does he agree that attempts to reconstruct Iraq continue to be overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the decision to go to war? I know that he is a keen student of political diaries, so what does he make of the diary of the former Foreign Secretary, the right hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook), and his claim that the Prime...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (8 Sep 2003)

Mr George Osborne: When he last discussed the security situation in Iraq with the US Secretary of Defence.

Household Waste Recycling Bill: New Clause 1 — Power to Apply Section 45A to Welsh Waste Collection Authorities (11 Jul 2003)

Mr George Osborne: ...this opportunity to pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Sayeed), who did speak for the Opposition on this issue but resigned from the Front Bench over the issue of Iraq, on a matter of principle. He left a real legacy by getting the Conservative party to take an even greater interest in green and environmental issues. That said, we very much welcome the...

Intelligence and Security Committee (3 Jul 2003)

Mr George Osborne: .... Friend seen the interview with Paul Wolfowitz, which reveals that WMD became a sort of bureaucratic reason to bring together the different agencies in Washington to make the case for war against Iraq? That supports my right hon. Friend's argument.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Ministerial Meetings (3 Mar 2003)

Mr George Osborne: When he last held discussions with the US Defence Secretary on Iraq.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Ministerial Meetings (3 Mar 2003)

Mr George Osborne: Does the Defence Secretary agree that behind some of the opposition to the Government's policy on Iraq is a caricature of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, which is a gross distortion of the truth? Will he take the opportunity to set the record straight, as the Prime Minister helpfully did when I asked him to set the record straight about George W. Bush last week?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (26 Feb 2003)

Mr George Osborne: On Iraq, does the Prime Minister agree that what lies behind some of the opposition to his policy is a caricature of President George W. Bush which is a gross distortion of the truth? Will he take this timely opportunity to set the record straight?

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Armed Forces (Gulf) (27 Jan 2003)

Mr George Osborne: Does the Secretary of State agree that many thousands of those soldiers face weeks of anxiety and uncertainty as the campaign in Iraq hots up? Will he join me in condemning those insurance companies, such as Norwich Union and Prudential, that refuse to provide life assurance cover to them? When does he plan to talk to those insurance companies so that at least that part of those soldiers'...

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Mr George Osborne: ...to the debate, that the US Administration are a bunch of cowboys who, in the words of the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson), cannot wait to bomb the living daylights out of Iraqis—[Interruption.] I see that that view has support from Government Members, but it is a patronising attitude, and was expressed in a milder, slightly more sophisticated way by the Liberal...