The creeping optimism that there might be a route to peace in Syria remains constrained by the elephant in the room -… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
There is not a shortage of assets in northern Syria but a shortage of targets. — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Doing something to make ourselves feel better is beside the real point of defeating Isis and ending the Syrian civil war. — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
In delivering the agreed objective of a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political process, the removal of Isis from its territory in Syria by… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
We don't comment on special forces operations. And if you run an operation for a long time as we have here, and… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
For the government, there is the frustration of not being a full part of the anti-Isis coalition. For ministers to have their… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
When the air forces of the U.S., Russia, France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others are already engaged with Isis in Syria,… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
After a proposal made by us, Saudi Arabia has had a major government reshuffle. Ibrahim al-Assaf has replaced Adel al-Jubeir as foreign… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Any initiative involving the green beret - as opposed to special forces - to expand and train a national Libyan military capacity… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The 2013 deal, whereby the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons verified the destruction of 95% of Syria's declared chemical weapons,… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Having western, Russian or Iranian forces providing the ground defeat of Isis would certainly work militarily, but would be the least attractive… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The committee accepts that, as the government response suggests, U.K. policy in Libya was initially driven by a desire to protect civilians.… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Any deeper involvement, including the use of airstrikes against Islamic State positions, will require parliamentary approval. The government anyway needs to get… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Disentangling this mess of foreign national interests is a necessary precondition to ensuring that there will be a future for Syria that… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Order has been sustained in Egypt over at least the last three decades by police conduct which bears more hallmarks of Egypt's… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites of whatever… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The Islamist camp is infused with a righteous indignation, as the forces of old, corrupt and rotten Egypt unite to try and drive them… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
We don't comment on special forces operations. And if you run an operation for a long time as we have here, and in Libya,… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Frankly, everyone knows that Iain Duncan Smith is not making the impact we would all like him to be as our leader and is… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
We are in this Alice in Wonderland world where parliament has approved a motion saying: 'notes the government will not deploy U.K. troops in… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
U.K. policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
There may be connections between the nearest prison to Oxford these days, HMP Bullingdon, and other institutions of that name. I have yet to… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The private sector complains that some of the agencies set up to advise and assist them in protecting their networks, such as CESG, are… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Turkey is an important strategic partner facing a volatile period. It needs and deserves our support, but that support needs to include our critique… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The coalition government made it clear from the outset that it would proceed with defendant anonymity in rape cases only if the evidence justifying… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
