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ISIL: Iraq and Syria

Debate between Gerald Howarth and Baroness Primarolo
Thursday 16th October 2014

(9 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness Primarolo Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Dawn Primarolo)
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Order. I ask hon. Members to focus on crisp, single questions to the Foreign Secretary, whom I am sure will give crisp and short answers, so that we can get everybody in and still have time for the debates later.

Gerald Howarth Portrait Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot) (Con)
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First, may I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend’s serious endeavours to get to grips with some very complex problems? He said that having boots on the ground was essential. To ask a crisp question, what are the prospects of getting the Iraqi army retrained—