Afghanistan

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 11:38 am on 18 August 2021.

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Photo of Graham Stringer Graham Stringer Labour, Blackley and Broughton 11:38, 18 August 2021

The right hon. Gentleman makes perfectly reasonable and justified criticisms of the way the American Government came to a decision to leave in such haste, but like a number of other right hon. and hon. Members, the implication of his speech is that we somehow could have had an independent Afghan policy without the Americans. Can he explain how?