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Orders of the Day: Education and Skills Bill (14 Jan 2008)

Michael Gove: ...difference between recognising that something is desirable and being concerned about the means that are used along the way to achieve that. With deference to the Labour party, I might call it the "Iraq test". We all recognise the desirability of removing Saddam Hussein, but how something like that is done can be crucial. [Interruption.] I fear that the Secretary of State was once again...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (14 May 2007)

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent assessment he has made of the security situation in Iraq.

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

Michael Gove: The right hon. and learned Gentleman has referred repeatedly to the liberation of Iraq as illegal. Like me, he will have noted that as a result of that liberation millions of Iraqis took part for the first time in free, multi-party elections to help to create a democratic coalition Government. Does he consider that the Iraqi men and women who voted in those elections were party to a crime and...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 30 (16 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ..., or to seek to interfere, in a host of other factors. For Labour Members, the notion of using one justification for intervention and then doing something completely different will remind them of the Iraq war, where one justification was used before other justifications were deployed. I make no comment about the rightness  of such a strategy when it comes to foreign affairs, but any...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (24 Jul 2006)

Michael Gove: What funding allocations have been made for the financing of military operations in Iraq; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (24 Jul 2006)

Michael Gove: The Prime Minister recently underlined the threat to our troops in Iraq from Iranian-backed militias and Iranian-supplied weapons. I am delighted that the Minister has today announced that we are going to upgrade the armoured vehicle fleet available to our troops to protect them from that threat. However, the wheeled armoured vehicles that he has ordered will not be ready for deployment until...

Business of the House (29 Jun 2006)

Michael Gove: ...who also said that Hindus were idol worshippers to whom it would be wrong to talk sweetly. Dr. Bari was also involved in inviting a Bangladeshi cleric who has called for American troops to return from Iraq in coffins if they do not convert to Islam. May we have an opportunity to examine where Ministers have gone wrong in tackling extremism?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iran (14 Mar 2006)

Michael Gove: ...the Iranian regime has increased its support for Hezbollah, stepped up its drive for a nuclear bomb, turned its country into the biggest prison for journalists in the middle east, backed forces in Iraq targeting British troops and pledged to wipe Israel off the map. Can the Foreign Secretary tell us what precisely was constructive about that interaction?

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (7 Jun 2005)

Michael Gove: ...distinguished, and it is a source of pride to me. In a proper spirit of bipartisanship, I pay tribute to this Government for their role in defending the cause of freedom in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and Iraq. I hope that it will not be considered wrong of me, however, to pledge that I shall use my position here to ensure that in future those who risk their lives on our behalf are given all the...