Angus Robertson: 'Silence' on issue of 70,000 moderate fighters

Angus Robertson, leader of the Scottish National Party in the UK parliament said there had been “silence” over who was “moderate and fundamentalist” in the 70,000 troops referred to by David Cameron.

“I will give way if any member from the government side would confirm from the dispatch box what is the makeup of these 70,000 forces," he added.

Conservative MP Richard Benyon attacked his question as “nitpicking.”

Robertson added that the government needed to make sure that “Turkey does not bomb our Kurdish allies" and said the UK had "a particular responsibility towards the Kurds in Iraq and in Syria.”