I am delighted that Her Majesty has seen fit to mark the outstanding gallantry, professionalism and commitment of so many service personnel operating in difficult and challenging environments. I am immensely proud of their achievements and congratulate them all. |
I am sorry about yesterday. I was on the platform. We didn't want it. It shouldn't have happened. It's not the way we do things in here. |
I ask that we try to imagine what it must be like on the battlefield, so we may be a little slower to condemn and a lot quicker to understand what I believe is the best fighting force in the world. |
I believe it is a process that could start, no more than that, over the next 12 months, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. |
I can also tell the House that British troops have opened fire in order to prevent unauthorized entry to . . . a camp in Kabul, |
I can also tell the House that British troops have opened fire in order to prevent unauthorized entry to ... a camp in Kabul, |
I can confirm that the two British service personnel detained earlier today by the Iraqi Police Service have now been released and are back with British forces in Multi-National Division (South East), |
I can't say enough about our defense, |
I can't say enough about our defense. They created a lot of turnovers, and that really got things going. |
I don't know who Mr Des Smith is. He doesn't speak with any authority for the Government at all. |
I don't think that anybody has ever suggested our troops will be out of Iraq by next May, ... What I have said is in the course of next year there could be the start of the process of the handover to the Iraqis. |
I freely admit to you that I expect that the terrorists will get more frenetic, more frantic |
I hope that any country near or bordering Iraq itself would be doing nothing that is or could be construed as assisting terrorists, |
I stand by the decision to build the aircraft carriers. |
I understand also that the Minister of the Interior, at the highest level, instructed that they should be (handed over), that the local judicial authorities said the same, |