Shadow chancellor John McDonnell compares the speech made by Hilary Benn in support of airstrikes in Syria to that made by Tony Blair ahead of the Iraq war. McDonnell,speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, says that while he was impressed by the shadow foreign secretary’s speech to MPs, or marvelous oratory can lead to ‘the greatest mistakes’Watch this interview on the Today programme’s website
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Source: theguardian.com