Lib Dems take pivotal role in Iraq debate today

By | Tue 31st October 2006 - 7:00 am

Today is an opposition day debate in Parliament, on Iraq. Speaking ahead of the debate, Michael Moore (Lib Dem shadow foreign sec) said:

“This is an important debate which ought to be the starting point for Government accountability on Iraq. It is unacceptable that the Government has not allotted time to debate this important issue for over two years and that we have had to rely on an opposition day debate before MPs can discuss this in Parliament.

“The US authorities responded to the failure of the current strategy by initiating the Baker review. The time has come for the British Government to do the same.”

The debate will commence shortly after 3:30pm, and you can watch it online at BBC Parliament.

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4 Comments

  • Paul Elgood 31st Oct '06 - 9:06am

    The TV news I’ve seen on this mentions (BBC – last night and this morning) the Tories and the nationalists and not us. Is it just the usual media ignorance? What are we doing?

  • l 31st Oct '06 - 10:13am

    The media started off saying our MPs had a three line whip to vote on this. The Tories were undecided at the time

    Now the media only talk about the Tories and the Nats – the tories are only half hartedly backing this with a two line whip (not compulsary) yet the media portray them as the cavelry charging in to save the day!

    Media bias against us as usual

  • Martin Hoscik 31st Oct '06 - 7:55pm

    Having watched the whole debate I thought the best two opposition contributions were Charles and Alex Salmond.

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