I think I can help the right hon. Gentleman. We were being invited to take military action in order to deprive President Assad’s regime of its chemical weapons—that was what we were being asked to do. If there was a proposition to do something much wider, that is the one that should have been put to the House.
The FCO and the Spending Review 2015
Proceeding contribution from
Crispin Blunt
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 March 2016.
It occurred during Estimates day on The FCO and the Spending Review 2015.
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