Bob Stewart
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Salisbury Incident
Bob Stewart Excerpts(6 years, 10 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
Yes, it is illegal to use a nerve agent of this sort. I understand that it is one that is banned under the convention.
Bob Stewart (Beckenham) (Con)
Would the Prime Minister agree that this attack probably involved a professional, Russian-trained operative in order for such an individually targeted assault to be carried out with what must have been a minute amount of something like sarin, VX, or tabun, which could so easily have had catastrophic, wide-scale, indiscriminate and deadly consequences?
The Prime Minister
I will not speculate about the nature of the individual or individuals who are responsible for this attack. That is of course a matter for the police investigation.