Defence secretary says overseas operations bill is needed because of Labour’s ‘events in the past’
The defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has angrily accused Labour of taking Britain into “illegal wars” when the party was last in government in a heated Commons exchange during the second reading of an armed forces bill.
The senior minister’s intervention came during the second reading of the overseas operations bill, which also saw 18 Labour MPs led by Jeremy Corbyn break the party whip to abstain by voting against the controversial legislation.
