Gary Kent: Conservatives should be proud of Major's legacy in Kurdistan - and strive to maintain it today

Gary Kent: Conservatives should be proud of Major's legacy in Kurdistan - and strive to maintain it today

Gary Kent has been a Labour parliamentary adviser for nearly 40 years, with a focus on Northern Ireland and Iraqi Kurdistan. No disrespect to Sir John Major, but I suspect there’s only one road in a foreign capital named after him. That mark of respect is thanks for clear-headed actions that may be a distant memory or unknown here, but that made a decisive difference there. The capital in question is Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. Back in 1991, Major…