Does the hon. Lady acknowledge that there is at least an argument that to use the whipping system to secure a parliamentary majority for a predetermined war emasculates the House of Commons rather than empowers it, because it prevents Back-Bench Members of Parliament from thereafter holding the Government to account? Does she agree that there might be an argument in favour of introducing some kind of UK war powers Act to get around that difficulty?
Report of the Iraq Inquiry
Proceeding contribution from
James Gray
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 13 July 2016.
It occurred during Debate on Report of the Iraq Inquiry.
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