Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria Debate

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Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Counter-Daesh Campaign: Iraq and Syria

Ben Bradshaw Excerpts
Thursday 3rd November 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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With his characteristic brilliance, my right hon. Friend asks a very difficult but hypothetical question which, given that it is hypothetical, I am entitled to decline to answer. What I can say is that I believe that under any circumstances, whatever happens in the United States on Tuesday of next week, the relationship between the UK and the US is the single most important political relationship in the world and will continue to be robust.

Ben Bradshaw Portrait Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab)
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Nevertheless, that relationship would be a lot better if President Clinton wins, as I am sure most people in this House agree. Does the Foreign Secretary see any prospect in that of then not giving up on his desire to see a more robust response to the Russians and to Assad in Aleppo?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I cannot, as I say, comment on the elections in another very friendly country. We have to wait and see what happens there, but I do not think that anybody here wants the United Kingdom under any circumstances to abandon its driving role in that question.