Video You were celebrating the re-election of Assad with 99 per cent of the vote – Thornberry ambushes Michael Fallon Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, today confronted Michael Fallon about his meeting with Bashar al-Assad a decade… 14th May, 2017, 12:30 pm
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News Hammond rules out air strikes in Syria, two hours late Cameron contradicts him Yesterday, Philip Hammond Defence Secretary ruled out air strikes in Syria. At a press conference in Berlin, he… 12th September, 2014, 11:32 am
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