In March 2013 Hans Blix believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but he wanted more time. I voted on that day to give him more time, but the official Opposition did not, and in my view they failed in their duty to scrutinise properly. Does the Prime Minister agree that a lesson for today is that in order for a Government to work effectively, they have to have a competent and effective Opposition?
Report of the Iraq Inquiry
Proceeding contribution from
Ian Lucas
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 6 July 2016.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Report of the Iraq Inquiry.
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