UK deputy prime minister says Assad ‘wasn’t exactly good to the Syrian people’ after rebels seize Damascus
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The UK government welcomes the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the deputy prime minister said after rebel forces took control of Damascus on Sunday morning.
Angela Rayner said that Assad, who has waged a bloody war against his own people since a rebellion against him in 13 years ago, “wasn’t exactly good to the Syrian people”.
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