Salisbury Incident

Bob Stewart Excerpts

Monday 12th March 2018 Commons Chamber

[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.