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Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...demented propaganda about ending boom and bust". He is exactly right: Labour did believe that demented propaganda. However, the Conservatives believe the same demented propaganda. Talking about the Iraq war vote, it is only now that they turn round and say, "We were so convinced by the sincerity of Tony Blair. We feel very upset that he's let us down." After all, why else would the right...

Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill: Use of the Chamber (United Kingdom Youth Parliament) (16 Mar 2009)

Jeremy Browne: .... Gentleman share my view that if the Government had allocated the amount of time that we are spending this evening in discussing this issue to debating issues such as our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, global terrorism, climate change and youth unemployment, more young people would have been engaged than by our talking about this narrow issue.?

Orders of the Day: New Clause 11 — Personal allowance for those aged under 65 (1 Jul 2008) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...have called the election in November and that that was a great missed opportunity. They will say that the lost tax discs were indicative of a wider malaise in the Government and that the visit to Iraq during the Conservative party conference made it hard for the Prime Minister to sustain the position that the era of spin had come to an end. All kinds of explanations will be offered on why...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 1 (6 May 2008)

Jeremy Browne: ...the Opposition parties need to align themselves behind any amendment to give it a chance of succeeding. For example, in the past Parliament, it did not matter how big the Labour rebellion was on the Iraq war because the Conservative party was committed, like the Labour party, to going to war in Iraq. On this proposal, the Opposition parties have all lined up to pressurise the Government...

Delegated Legislation: Government's Crime Record (7 Feb 2007)

Jeremy Browne: ...will be plenty of material to consider—the absence of real leadership and of meaningful reform in welfare and health care, and the huge scar running through the Government that is the war in Iraq. However, the Prime Minister is especially associated with one phrase. It made him famous as a politician, even though it was apparently authored by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The...

Afghanistan (9 Jan 2007)

Jeremy Browne: ...the case, and the news on our television screens and radios and in our newspapers nearly every day makes that clear. We are trying to fight in two countries in the middle east—Afghanistan and Iraq. It is worth repeating that if the armed forces are overstretched it is due in large part to the fact that the Labour and Conservatives parties voted for us to go to war simultaneously in...

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] — Middle East (11 Oct 2006)

Jeremy Browne: ...months and years. This is a wide-ranging subject for debate and because time is limited I propose to concentrate on two issues. One is taking stock of the position in which we find ourselves in Iraq, and the other is the issue that came before the House prominently before the summer recess and that has continued to be prominent over the summer—the situation in Lebanon. I shall start...

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: British Forces (Afghanistan) (3 Jul 2006)

Jeremy Browne: ...of kidnappings and roadside and suicide bombings. Does the Minister share my concern and that of many other Members that the tactics used in Afghanistan increasingly resemble those being used in Iraq?

Iran (Nuclear Programme) (1 Feb 2006)

Jeremy Browne: ...—is that we should try to understand the mindset of people in the middle ground in Iran, rather than that of the most extreme people. To take the view of an Iranian person, on the west is Iraq, which is occupied predominantly by the United States but by the United Kingdom as well, while on the east is Afghanistan, which is also subject in large parts to, as an Iranian might see it,...