Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:16 pm on 15 January 1991.
Will the right hon. Gentleman accept that the argument for those of us who are opposed to the use of force is not whether the writ of the United Nations should run in the Gulf, but how it should run, and whether there is a way to implement international law and sanctions that will avoid a massive carnage at the end of the 20th century?