By: Hamish De Bretton-Gordon
Dan Jarvis, the new Defence Secretary, is a former Parachute Regiment officer for whom I have had the highest regard. Although I do not know him particularly well, when I was gathering evidence of Bashar al-Assad’s war crimes in Syria he was one of the few politicians willing to engage seriously with the issue. At a time when much of the international community seemed content to look the other way as Assad gassed innocent civilians, Jarvis’s support mattered.







