RECENTLY, Harlow MP Robert Halfon visited the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

The MP has written about his visit on Conservative Hone website.

“Why do you have to go to Iraq,” said my friends and family, “isn’t it a bit dangerous?” Others just exclaimed: “Iraq? Why on earth…?’ I replied: “don’t worry – I am travelling with my colleague Jack Lopresti, formerly of the armed forces and who served in Afghanistan”. Jack is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Kurdistan Group and I could not be with a better travelling companion”.

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