Results 1-20 of 26 for iraq speaker:Angus MacNeil

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Angus MacNeil: I will not detain the House for long. I would like to deal with why we need an inquiry into the Iraq war, and why the issue is so important. As we know, and has been said by the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) and many others, the war was based on a lie, propaganda and hype. Perhaps people watching outside this Chamber have bought into the idea that politicians lie...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Angus MacNeil: The hon. Gentleman may be aware that five years ago, another of the United States' very junior parties carried out an independent inquiry, in February 2004, into the pre-Iraq intelligence and the threat of weapons of mass destruction. That inquiry felt that that evidence may have been "overstated". It also felt that the conservative Government in Australia were "more measured" than their...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Angus MacNeil: Something else that we share with Barack Obama is our outright opposition to the Iraq war from the outset, which Labour and Conservative Members did not share.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (13 May 2008)

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he proposes to establish an inquiry into the Government's discharge of its responsibilities in relation to the war in Iraq.

Points of Order: Child Poverty in Scotland (1 May 2008) has video

Angus MacNeil: ...Group in Scotland welcomes the £1 billion extra from the Chancellor, but it points out that this is only a quarter of what is needed. If we consider that we are fighting £1 billion a year wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, perhaps we should take another look at our priorities. Recommendation 15 is important, and offers a step that the Government can manage relatively easily. The...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Angus MacNeil: The hon. Gentleman said that we are now in Iraq on a different basis, and he is absolutely correct. The motion asks for an inquiry into the Iraq war. We are not at war with Iraq today; we are in a different situation—a mess created in the aftermath of the war. The war is over, so there is no reason for not having an inquiry now.

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Angus MacNeil: I am listening intently to the hon. Gentleman's concerns, which stretch over many decades. I take it that, like me, he is very impatient for an inquiry into the war in Iraq, and that he will vote for such an inquiry tonight.

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Angus MacNeil: The Foreign Secretary says that Iraq is an ongoing situation. Is he saying, therefore, that the President of the United States was wrong when he said, "Mission accomplished"?

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Angus MacNeil: .... To develop the argument that the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) made, does the right hon. Gentleman agree that, this being the third attempt to have an inquiry into Iraq, if we do not have one this time, owing to the practical problem of Labour Back Benchers, the message sent out to the public will be that to have such an inquiry, they must not vote Labour,...

Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill: European Union (Amendment) Bill — [12th Allotted Day] (11 Mar 2008) has video

Angus MacNeil: I hear what the right hon. Gentleman is saying about respect and leadership, but is he seriously telling us that since we went into Iraq five years ago respect in the EU for the UK has been enhanced?

Business of the House (6 Mar 2008) has video

Angus MacNeil: World war two lasted more than five and a half years. This month marks five years since the Iraq war started. The Nobel prize winner Joe Stiglitz reckons that it has cost $6 trillion. The Library says that it has cost the UK about £2.5 million a day. May we have a debate with a view to setting up a Committee of inquiry into this war, which may have cost half a million lives?

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

Angus MacNeil: Does the right hon. Gentleman feel that the motion before the House is a good starting point for the inquiry into Iraq or not?

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

Angus MacNeil: ...of the Chamber, especially in view of an answer that he gave on 25 October last year to my hon. Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) when he said that he would be "happy to debate Iraq at any time."—[ Official Report, 25 October 2006; Vol. 450, c. 1515.]? The Prime Minister then failed to turn up to a debate on Iraq exactly six days later. Today, he has missed it...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (14 Mar 2007)

Angus MacNeil: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I was saying, cash for peerages is probably not the biggest disaster of the right hon. Gentleman's tenure; Iraq is. We have heard concerns already about poor medical treatment for soldiers, lack of body armour and delays in coroners inquests. Indeed, some of my constituents from Stornoway have to pay council tax when they are in Iraq. Is the right hon. Gentleman...

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

Angus MacNeil: ...that the leader of every mainland party is in the Chamber today except one, the Prime Minister. Does he agree that the Prime Minister should be in the House today, helping us with our inquiries on Iraq?

Business of the House (18 Jan 2007)

Angus MacNeil: Last week, I reminded the Leader of the House that, on 25 October, the Prime Minister said at the Dispatch Box that he would be happy to debate Iraq any time, yet six days later he failed to turn up and show his face at a Scottish National party and Plaid Cyrmu debate on Iraq. Has the Leader of the House convinced the Prime Minister to be here on 24 January, as I asked him to do last week?...

Business of the House (11 Jan 2007)

Angus MacNeil: At Prime Minister's Questions on 25 October, the Prime Minister told the House from the Dispatch Box that he would be happy to debate Iraq anywhere. However, six days later, on 31 October—Halloween—during a debate initiated by the Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru, he was nowhere to be seen. Does not the Leader of the House have a right and a duty to urge the Prime...

Written Answers — Defence: Casualty Statistics (26 Jun 2006)

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the ratio is between fatalities and injuries among UK armed services personnel on active service in Iraq.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (5 Jun 2006)

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department plans to take to make helicopters in Iraq safer for flight personnel.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (5 Jun 2006)

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers prescribed medication for psychological problems have been posted back to active service in Iraq.