My intention is that in the course of the next week or two you will see that far from being an impasse, that this short and temporary suspension will have been a platform for us to go forward.

In the course of next year, there could be the start of the process of the handover to the Iraqis.

It is a matter of political practicality. In the course of the next four years this decision will take place. It will inevitably be more public than such decisions in the past,

We don't need them (more troops) at the moment, if that's necessary, of course we would do that,