Aleppo and Syria

My hon. Friend knows far more about such military matters than I do. That is my understanding of ...

What roles does the right hon. Gentleman envisage for Syria’s near neighbours and for the west, i...

That is an extremely good point, and I shall come to it shortly.

Is not the tragedy of Syria that none of us can imagine a future Syrian Government who would have...

I shall come to that point as well, but let me say now that the whole purpose of the efforts of t...

My right hon. Friend may well be aware that, in a fairly short space of time, far more Syrian tha...

My hon. Friend has made his point with great eloquence.

We are not using the opportunity—if...

I recently received a parliamentary answer from the Minister of State, Department for Internation...

Not in respect of the camp. On the basis of my knowledge of these matters, I think that my hon. F...

I commend my right hon. Friend for securing this debate. Does he agree that the Russian military ...

My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point.

The extraordinary misfortune of timing that I...

The right hon. Gentleman is making an incredibly compelling case. The situation in Aleppo is beyo...

I shall come on to the hon. Lady’s second point in a moment. On her first point, I agree with her...

My right hon. Friend is making an incredibly strong case. When it comes to Russia, are we not liv...

The Russians are doing to the United Nations precisely what Italy and Germany did to the League o...

I join my right hon. Friend in supporting no-bombing zones, as well as aid drops in memory of our...

My hon. Friend is on to an extremely good point.

The right hon. Gentleman mentioned Guernica. In the 1930s, there was united condemnation of what ...

The hon. Gentleman is on to an extremely good point. What is needed is a concerted effort by the ...

I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on securing this debate. His comparison with the actions ...

That is the very point I was making.

We should single Russia out as a pariah. Like any bull...

I completely concur with the right hon. Gentleman’s words about Russia and the atrocities that it...

The hon. Lady makes an extremely powerful point. We cannot do this alone. We must use Britain’s o...

I am most grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, not only for securing this debate but for allowin...

I think the hon. Gentleman would agree that, by having this three-hour debate today, we are movin...

I presume that we are talking about the gas pipeline that runs from Kurdistan through Turkey and ...

The Foreign Secretary has recently been in Turkey. I am sure that the House will be interested in...

I have operated under a no-fly zone. It is practical and it can work, but it is quite difficult a...

I have no doubt that the Foreign Secretary will want to comment on those remarks, to which my hon...

As one of the four Opposition Members who did not oppose military action on that fateful day in A...

That is extremely welcome news both inside the House and outside.

I have one final point on...

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way and I congratulate him on securing this debate. Given...

My hon. Friend makes a good point, but those S-300 missiles do not affect the viability of imposi...

May I add a question to the ones that the right hon. Gentleman has posed to the Foreign Secretary...

The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely good point. I hope that when he is considering sanctions, b...

May I start by welcoming the right hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel) to her new position? I al...

There is no ceasefire.

Absolutely there is not a ceasefire now; that is what I am moving on to. Of course there is no ce...

Can my hon. Friend present us with the evidence that she clearly has that it is realistic to beli...

I have thought about this a great deal and spoken to a number of experts about it, and I have som...

If the peace that we all want is not achievable, will the hon. Lady support the application of mi...

I am not a pacifist, personally. I believe in using military force when it can be effective, if w...

While we all look for peace, does the hon. Lady agree that sometimes backing down, looking weak a...

Yes, I agree, but let us be strong about this and let us put forward a plan that might work. If t...

We had a ceasefire; it was brutally blown apart by Russian and Syrian air power. I still have not...

I apologise to my right hon. Friend. I thought that that was exactly what I said. For the avoidan...

Order. Before we proceed further, I have seen how many people wish to contribute. I do not want t...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I start by congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldf...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who was one of the best Ministers in the Foreign Offic...

The point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield and myself, and the point ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I shall give way very briefly, but I am being fair to Mr Speaker by trying to keep the interventi...

The veto in the Security Council by Russia will kill any plan stone dead. Perhaps this is a chanc...

There may be international mechanisms that involve talk, but perhaps there are other things that ...

Inaction has consequences, and the consequences of inaction in 2013 are seen in Aleppo today.

They are; we learned that intervention has consequences, but so does non-intervention. We talk ab...

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that one of the reasons why some of us are so concerned about...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. Anyone who thought that Russia had any other agenda w...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Does he agree that the reason why we ha...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, because what she says is exactly right. Those who are...

Order. The hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) made a succinct speech...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am aware that a lot of colleagues want to get in. I congratulate the rig...

I am sure that all of us want a negotiated end to the problems in Syria, but does the hon. Gentle...

I will come on to the geopolitics and relations between the United States and Russia, but the ans...

While the UK Government are right to focus their efforts on providing aid in the region, the refu...

Yes, absolutely, I agree that persecuted minorities need to be given special attention. The House...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Patrick Grady). I shall keep my spe...

On the International Criminal Court, I am worried that any action would be hamstrung by Russia in...

My hon. Friend is right to express those concerns. The ICC has not proved itself effective in man...

Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that one problem with the ICC is that not enough countries, ...

The Opposition spokeswoman makes an important point. Far too many countries have not signed up to...

Much has been written about Syria and Aleppo in recent months. Parliament has not been sitting, s...

It is a pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd), who has ...

My hon. Friend is making an extraordinarily powerful point. However, the resettlement programme i...

I do agree with my hon. Friend. The people of Liverpool have made a similar pledge, as have the c...

There have been suggestions that the International Development Secretary is disinclined to allow ...

I entirely echo what the right hon. Gentleman the former Minister says. I entirely agree. The sca...

My hon. Friend is making a very powerful case for helping the people in the region. Ultimately, h...

I absolutely concur with what my hon. Friend says about sanctions against Russia. I support the d...

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting time for this debate. Until today, we had not debated the atr...

We must be absolutely clear as a House precisely what we mean by this demand for a no-fly zone. T...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He anticipates the very point I am about t...

Will my hon. Friend be clear about what support she is seeking for the White Helmets? Are we talk...

All of the above.

I just want to make sure that the record is absolutely accurate. The difficulty with taking Syria...

I thank my Front-Bench colleague for that clarity.

Finally, we can certainly offer support ...

I thank the hon. Lady for her speech. There have been some exceptionally powerful speeches in the...

You caught me slightly unawares, Mr Speaker, but I appreciate being called at this juncture.

Has the hon. Gentleman seen what happened in Homs when it was being besieged? The proposed action...

Where did those people go and what did they do? I will take no lectures from Labour Front Bencher...

Given that Russia is a key part of this conflict and the problems faced by the people in Aleppo, ...

I do entirely—it will. Reports at the weekend have suggested that Russia is succeeding in the ele...

It has been a privilege to be in the House today for some of the best—although I also have to say...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Okay, really quickly—we are getting frowned at by Mr Speaker.

I will be very quick. Does my hon. Friend agree that the suggestion from the Labour Front-Bench s...

Who are we kidding? There is no process, because no one is standing up to the Russian regime’s bo...

I, too, commend the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell) for securing the debate....

Perhaps I am one of those men who prance and preen in the way the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Pet...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell) on securing this importan...

I apologise to the House for my lateness in attending the debate; I was chairing the Environmenta...

Does the hon. Lady agree that what the Russians are doing now to Aleppo is exactly what they did ...

Absolutely. The Russian war crimes in Grozny were bravely documented by Anna Politkovskaya and an...

The hon. Lady is making some very powerful points. This is a fight not only for the people and th...

I agree totally with the hon. Gentleman. Russia’s positioning of nuclear-capable warheads in Kali...

May I thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting the time for the debate this afternoon? May I also join...

Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that the UK should unilaterally stop its actions in Syria? If so...

The United Kingdom unilaterally joined this fight in December last year, promising that it would ...

I, too, thank the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell) for bringing forward this ...

The hon. Lady is understandably painting a heart-rending picture of what is happening in Syria. I...

That is the gravamen of the point, for which we are grateful.

The right hon. Gentleman misses the fact that we are not denying that the brutality inflicted by ...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell) on securing thi...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that this catastrophe represents a terrible failure of the securi...

I certainly agree with my right hon. Friend that we are all judged in the House by our actions an...

Will the Foreign Secretary take this opportunity to tell the House whether he supports the French...

We are in constant touch with our French colleagues about this proposal. As I said earlier, I am ...

Does the Foreign Secretary not think that more weight would be attached to the strength of his wo...

I take that point very sincerely, but it is vital that we concentrate our efforts and our censure...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a powerful speech. I wonder whether he will he go further in r...

I will come to the way forward for Aleppo in a minute. Let me remind the House of all the ways in...

rose—

I am really sorry, but I must make some progress.

We must consult on this as widely as poss...

Before we run out of time, may I refocus the right hon. Gentleman on the question that I asked ab...

As the hon. Lady will understand, one cannot get rid of the jihadi fighters from eastern Aleppo a...

May I thank colleagues for taking part in the debate and for the succinct and comprehensive way i...