Foreign Affairs and Defence

Part of Debate on the Address – in the House of Commons at 3:18 pm on 10 December 2008.

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Photo of Michael Ancram Michael Ancram Conservative, Devizes 3:18, 10 December 2008

If I understood the hon. Gentleman correctly, he said that the "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" doctrine was a hindrance. May I remind him that we applied that doctrine in Northern Ireland? From my personal experience, I can tell him that had we not applied it, we would not have made the progress that we did.