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
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?
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
Having watched the whole debate I thought the best two opposition contributions were Charles and Alex Salmond.
Paul
BBC World TV reported “minority parties”
I expect the Tories will soon be a minority party.