Report of the Iraq Inquiry

The hon. Gentleman reads out some very important parts of the report. It is significant that Sir ...

It may be unusual for anyone in this place to change the way they vote following a speech made he...

Of course it is right that the people who took the decision have to bear the responsibility. That...

I voted for the action in 2003. It was a difficult decision, but I do not apologise. I believe th...

The hon. Gentleman asks a question that it is impossible to answer. I can say only that just as t...

I thank my right hon. Friend for pledging on behalf of this House that our soldiers who suffered ...

With his military background, my hon. Friend is absolutely right to make that point. Iraq and Afg...

Chilcot has concluded that this country did not go to war as a last resort, that the authority of...

The right hon. Gentleman is right to highlight those important aspects of the report. The war was...

In respect of the structure of government, does my right hon. Friend agree that the national secu...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right on his second point. Prime Ministers do need to be able to dep...

Will the Prime Minister put on the record that he believes all those who voted for the action aga...

I am happy to make both those points. I am sure everyone, like me, came here, listened to the arg...

Our troops shouldered the burden of Mr Blair’s disastrous Iraq war and paid the price in blood. O...

I thank my hon. Friend for his kind remarks and for all the good work he has done, not least in c...

We have heard a lot of criticism of the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, all of it justified. I...

The hon. Lady wants to replay all the arguments of the day, but I do not see a huge amount of poi...

The decision not to give Hans Blix more time to conclude his UN weapons inspections is surely one...

My hon. Friend is right: one of the most powerful points in the report is that Blix should have b...

However wrong it was to take military action on the basis of false intelligence—and I accept my r...

I do not always agree with the hon. Gentleman, but I think he has put it very well. Saddam Hussei...

Today is a dark day for the United Kingdom Government, a tragic day for Iraq, and a desperate day...

As ever on these matters, my hon. Friend speaks with great clarity. He is right to say that this ...

May I say to the Prime Minister that we should remember that the real responsibility for the murd...

I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman will have to read the report in order to answer those questio...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. I gather from what I have heard so far that there...

I very much agree with what my hon. Friend has said. We are doing everything we can to get throug...

On this day, when we rightly reflect on our own intervention and our own responsibilities, it is ...

I do agree with the right hon. Gentleman. I said in my statement that I thought there were lesson...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, but will he join me in expressing slight concern not ...

I am going to hesitate before replying to my hon. Friend, because there is not a huge amount abou...

Those of us who come to the report scandalised anew by the duplicity of presentation and the pauc...

I do not think it is a greywash or a whitewash or an anything elsewash. I think, from what I have...

It has been sobering this afternoon to hear the reflections of those who took the decision here i...

May I thank my hon. Friend for his service, and thank all who served on operations after 2003 all...

May I also ask the House to pause for a minute to remember Robin Cook, who had the courage to spe...

I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman that we should recognise that what people in the middle...

My right hon. Friend will attend the NATO Warsaw summit this weekend, and he will be acutely awar...

My hon. Friend is right: we should not use this sobering moment of reflection, when we look at th...

Like the Prime Minister, I remember the debates of February and March 2003; we were both elected ...

I can certainly give the right hon. Gentleman that assurance. That was something specifically add...

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving such an excellent statement on this war. As he knows, my ...

I am happy to give my hon. Friend that assurance. I think that work is in hand.

May I reiterate the comments about the loss of life in Iraq, and specifically take this opportuni...

Let me join the hon. Gentleman, who himself served in our armed forces, in paying tribute to what...

Given that the Chilcot report found that the UK Government undermined UN Security Council’s autho...

The Foreign Office has been restored in many ways. The former Foreign Secretary William Hague res...

I am always proud when we hear that we are not shrinking from our place on the world’s stage, but...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. I did mention service families, because it is important that we ...

We have heard talk today about what a dreadful dictator Saddam was and how he had been ignoring U...

There is a good section of the report that is entitled “Why now?” because that was, I think, one ...

As the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) said earlier, John Chilcot today c...

I think Mr Blair is probably speaking while we are here, so let us wait and see what he says in r...

The barbarity of Saddam Hussein is beyond doubt and my thoughts are with the thousands of Kurds m...

My hon. Friend, who served in at least one of those missions, has made this point before and it i...

There are some practical constitutional lessons to be learned here, specifically for Parliament g...

These are all interesting ideas and I am prepared to consider them. The Attorney General does ans...

I, too, pay tribute to the troops. Those who have ended up with broken lives because of the war s...

The hon. Lady is right to say that the bit of the report that deals with the issue of whether the...

Many of us who voted against the war, particularly those on the Government side, remember the day...

I think your country should always come before your party. I am not a huge believer in arm-twisti...

Hundreds of thousands of deaths, a region destabilised, a generation radicalised, a House deceive...

As I have said, everyone has to account for their actions, such as the people who voted for this ...

It is clear from these exchanges that the report will not settle questions about whether the war ...

I think that everyone will have to study the report carefully. In an earlier answer I tried to gi...

Order. Somebody has just moaned about not being called to ask a question. I try to call everybody...

I am very grateful, Mr Speaker.

From my early and hurried reading of the report, I can see ...

Questions like that probably need to wait for the debate, because they need longer answers. The o...

I commend Charles Kennedy for the leadership he provided to me and others on this issue. Members ...

That is a very good question. I think that all the advances that have been made, such as Select C...

In March 2013 Hans Blix believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but he want...

I am all for competent and effective opposition. On the job of the Opposition, I take both bits s...

Prime Minister, thank you for your statement. You referred, in particular, to the lessons that ne...

The hon. Gentleman asks an important question. The report states that huge improvements have sinc...

The hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) is one of the most humane and, rightly, well-liked M...

With regard to lessons learned, can I ask the Prime Minister to reflect on the situation in Syria...

We have made some commitments to supporting a post-conflict reconstruction plan for Syria, but I ...

Those of us who were here on 18 March 2003 will know that there were no moral certainties availab...

I think the hon. Gentleman asks a very interesting question, because before now I always felt tha...

I declare an interest, as my eldest brother served in both Iraq wars, and another still serves in...

First, I thank the hon. Gentleman’s family, through him, for their service in the past and curren...

I join all those in the House in paying tribute to our armed forces. We owe them a huge debt of g...

I agree with the hon. Lady that we should all want to be committed to a world of rules and strong...

I must first declare an interest in that my husband has served in our armed forces. It is crucial...

I think that the best thing we can do is to make sure that when mistakes are made and when bad co...

As a newly elected councillor, my very first motion before my council was to oppose this unjust w...

We are going to study the report very carefully to see what other lessons can be learned, but som...

At 24 years old, I am the second youngest Member of this House. Many of the 179 service personnel...

First, I thank those families for the service and the sacrifice of their children. We should genu...

It has been 13 years since Robin Cook returned to the Back Benches to campaign for a world order ...

I think that our foreign policy should always have an ethical dimension and always has. The advic...

My constituent Ben Shaw is a veteran of the Iraq conflict, in which he was blinded. He will never...

First, through the hon. Gentleman, may I thank Ben for his service to our country and for everyth...

I pay tribute to the 179 brave servicemen and women who lost their lives, including Corporal Matt...

I have tried to be careful today to recognise that this was the act of a previous Government, and...

On a practical level, the report sets out that it is very difficult for intelligence to be assess...

What the hon. Lady is asking for is quite difficult. The process should be that Ministers take ac...

My thoughts today are with Mrs Rose Gentle whose son Gordon was killed in Iraq at 18 years of age...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that providing the correct military equipment is an absolu...

I thank the Prime Minister and all colleagues who have taken part in these exchanges.