Showing posts with label Commons debate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commons debate. Show all posts

Thursday, December 03, 2015

Hilary Benn Speech in Full: 'We Must Now Confront This Evil'


Wednesday’s Commons debate will be remembered for Hilary Benn’s extraordinary wind-up speech, in which he powerfully (but politely) challenged his own leader and asserted Labour’s claim to be the party of activist, hard-edged internationalism. Towards the end, he compared the imperative to bomb Isis in Syria to ‘why this entire House stood up against Hitler and Mussolini’