Results 1-12 of 12 for iraq speaker:David Howarth

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Freedom of Information Act 2000 (24 Feb 2009) has video

David Howarth: I also thank the Secretary of State for an advance copy of his statement. I am fascinated that the coalition that supported the Iraq war seems still to exist in the House. The decision to go to war in Iraq was momentous, controversial and disastrous. It was especially disastrous for the rule of international law and for this country's reputation as an upholder of international law. It marks...

Coroners and Justice Bill (26 Jan 2009) has video

David Howarth: ...not merely important in the politically embarrassing cases, although they are important in those cases, too: in the de Menezes case, the Baha Mousa case, the inquests into the deaths of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and any repeat of the David Kelly affair. It is enormously important from the point of view of maintaining faith in the system that when the Government assert in such a case...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Constitutional Renewal (25 Mar 2008) has video

David Howarth: ...in a context that has nothing to do with political decisions? The proposals on not releasing the Attorney-General's legal opinions are especially poignant, given that later today we will debate the Iraq war. There is a strong case for confidentiality while policy is being formulated, but when the Government rely on that legal advice in a parliamentary debate, Parliament should see the real...

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Law Officers (28 Jun 2007)

David Howarth: ...of attending Cabinet as a matter of course? Does not that appear to put the Attorney-General in the position of being too close to the Government to advise objectively on matters such as the war in Iraq and the dropping of the prosecution of BAE?

Point of Order: Iraq and the wider Middle East (24 Jan 2007)

David Howarth: Does the Foreign Secretary agree with what the Prime Minister wrote in the current edition of Foreign Affairs? He said that the reason for the invasion of Iraq was not regime change but what he called "values change". If she does agree, will she explain how it is possible to change people's values through military force? To which other countries does that doctrine apply?

Business of the House (7 Dec 2006)

David Howarth: May I return to the subject of Iraq, and the need for a full debate on the Baker-Hamilton report? The Leader of the House will have seen what it says about violence, insurgency and criminality, and about the Iraqi Government's failure to make any advance on national reconciliation, or even to provide basic services. Is it not important that this House debate at least one...

Orders of the Day: Energy Supply (30 Oct 2006)

David Howarth: ...... foreign policy." Of course, that led to a policy of autarchy and of trying to maintain obsessive control over the range of energy sources. It may not have been the only reason for the war in Iraq, but I am sure that it was not entirely irrelevant. In fact, one aspect of the nuclear debate that worries me—hon. Members appear to find it so interesting—is that it seems that...

Social Exclusion Unit (20 Oct 2005)

David Howarth: ...give examples of protests that did not change Government policy and which led to a good deal of disillusionment, although I suppose that this is not the time to mention the protests against the Iraq war. When people are consulted and when their views are taken on board as part of the process that the document describes, it is important that those carrying out the consultation bear it in...

Written Answers — Solicitor-General: Iraq (20 Jun 2005)

David Howarth: To ask the Solicitor-General whether the advice set out in paragraphs 34 and 35 of the Attorney's advice on the legality of war in Iraq on 17 March 2003 remains the policy of the Law Officers.

European Affairs (15 Jun 2005)

David Howarth: ...change, not just incremental change, in the distribution of the budget among different projects. My main fear is that, because of the events of 2003 and the fundamental rupture caused by the Iraq war, the Government and the Prime Minister cannot bring about that change.

Business of the House (26 May 2005)

David Howarth: Will the Leader of the House make time for the House to debate the Attorney-General's advice to the Prime Minister of 7 March 2003 on the legality of the war in Iraq? In particular, will he make room for a debate on paragraphs 34 and 35 of that advice? Paragraph 34 states that Ministers are open to prosecution for the common law crime of international aggression. On such legal actions,...