Syria

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Excerpts
Wednesday 20th December 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Evans of Bowes Park) (Con)
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My Lords, it is the turn of the Bishops’ Benches.

Lord Bishop of Leeds Portrait The Lord Bishop of Leeds
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My Lords, would the Minister agree that there is a danger here that support for, and funding of, anti-Assad forces, however understandable that may seem from the outside, might lead to exactly the same unintended consequences that we have seen in Iraq—namely, the strengthening of anti-democratic Islamist forces who have no intention of delivering the freedoms that we assume they should?