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Alison McGovern Excerpts
Tuesday 11th July 2017

(7 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend. He is of course right. Iraq is an ethnically divided and religiously divided country. We must make sure that everybody feels properly represented in the new constitution, and devolution to Mosul is certainly an option that we will be exploring.

Alison McGovern Portrait Alison McGovern (Wirral South) (Lab)
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Further to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Barrow and Furness (John Woodcock), before the Foreign Secretary meets the all-party friends of Syria group, will he discuss a comprehensive strategy to protect civilians with the Department for International Development and the Ministry of Defence so that we can have a proper joined-up strategy at last?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I can tell the hon. Lady that that is already happening.