Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 January 1991.
Mr Paddy Ashdown
Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
12:00,
17 January 1991
We all heard the news of last night's action with deep regret that this war had to be fought. Does the Prime Minister realise that in this House, and I believe in the nation, there is no mood of jingoism for war but a deep determination to see through a job that must be done, to support our forces and to back the United Nations?