EU Council, Security and Middle East

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 3:45 pm on 1 September 2014.

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Photo of Peter Tapsell Peter Tapsell Father of the House of Commons 3:45, 1 September 2014

Does the Prime Minister recognise that one of the reasons why there are misguided British jihadists fighting in Arabia is the folly of those in the Gulf and in the west who first encouraged and then supported a Sunni rebellion against the Syrian Alawites? We must avoid, under the banner of democracy, intervening in a religious civil war that has already lasted for 1,300 years.