Earl Howe
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Monday 26th June 2017
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The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Earl Howe) (Con)
My Lords, we have time for both questions, so shall we go first to the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy?
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
The matter being raised by my noble friend Lord Alton relates to the torture of women and others—Christians and Yazidis. Rather alarmingly, President Trump, in campaigning, said that he was in favour of torture, that there was nothing wrong with torture and that, as far as he was concerned, it worked. Have we in any way addressed his publicly expressed opinion on torture?