Christian Baroness Cox joined other members of the House of Lords and church leaders to hold meetings with the Assad regime.
Tory MP Nigel Evans said at the time it “defied logic” that the group visited the country just a week after dozens were suspected killed by chemical weapons in Douma.
However, Lady Cox told Premier she questioned whether there had been a chemical weapons attack at all.
Condemning the UK’s participation in air strikes, the crossbench member of the House of Lords said: “Everyone is…deeply, deeply angered by the use of missiles by the UK, the US and by France really for three reasons – one, it was illegal.
“There was no mandate and Syria is not about to attack our country, so there’s no legal justification and also the timing. They actually sent the missiles the day before the chemical weapons investigators were due to investigate.”
“There’s also a lot of concern about the British government’s continuing commitment to so-called regime change. There is no moderate armed opposition left so any regime change would just open up the situation to another Iraq, another Libya – that’s the last thing they want.”
Lady Cox’s visit earlier this month included a meeting with the Grand Mufti of Syria, who has been accused by Amnesty International of authorising the mass hangings of prisoners in the country’s Saydnaya jail.
The peer said she was not aware of…
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