Counter-Daesh Update Debate

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Department: Department for International Development

Alex Norris

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Counter-Daesh Update

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Social Mobility Commission
Thursday 29th March 2018

(6 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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The Foreign Office has ongoing discussions. Most recently, my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Middle East was in Turkey last week and spoke to the Deputy Prime Minister.

Alex Norris Portrait Alex Norris (Nottingham North) (Lab/Co-op)
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The Secretary of State mentions the suffering of the Syrian people; does she agree with the constituents who came to see me at my surgery last Friday that that suffering has been compounded by the British Government’s shameful timidity regarding Turkish aggression in northern Syria?

Alistair Burt Portrait The Minister for the Middle East (Alistair Burt)
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Perhaps the vote in 2013 had something to do with it.

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