Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 January 1991.
Mr Tam Dalyell
, Linlithgow
12:00,
17 January 1991
If General Powell were to be instructed either to accept or to offer a call for a cease fire, would we have to wait until Kuwait was occupied by coalition forces? In the light of my letter of yesterday to him, could the Prime Minister clarify the differences between himself on the one hand and Secretary Cheney and General Powell on the other on the use and legal aspects of nuclear weapons?