EU Council, Security and Middle East

Ben Bradshaw Excerpts

Monday 1st September 2014 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

I heard my hon. and learned Friend’s calming tones on the radio this morning, which set the tone for my whole mood today. He is right. I do not believe in knee-jerk responses. We are a country under the law, we have very firm rules in this area and what are required are some changes at the margin to fill in the gaps that we have identified. We should not spend too long debating and discussing those gaps, because if there are gaps they need to be filled quite urgently.

[Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab)]

Why is the Prime Minister still sending weapons to the Netanyahu Government in Israel while being so slow to arm the Kurds and refusing to arm the legitimate Government of Ukraine?

[The Prime Minister]

We are operating the legislation that in part was put forward by the Government of whom he was a member.