Sir Julian Lewis: Does the Foreign Secretary accept that repeatedly saying that a terrorist group must do something does not make it happen? When she says that Hezbollah

“must end these dangerous attacks and disarm”,

does she expect this to happen voluntarily, and if not, how does she expect it to be brought about?

[The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Yvette Cooper): Hezbollah is a dangerous terrorist organisation. It is undermining the security of the people of Lebanon. We support the Lebanese Government and the Lebanese armed forces in taking action against Hezbollah. We are providing them with direct support, including funding and capabilities support, because we believe it is hugely important that they should be able to do this with international support. We also think, frankly, that Iran should be putting pressure on its proxies, rather than using proxies to escalate tensions and to escalate activity, so we are putting pressure on Iran to put pressure on Hezbollah.]