BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw attempted to clear up speculation over a Saudi Arabian order for 48 Lancashire-built strike planes.
Concern arose over whether the £1.6million order would go to the British Tornado or to an American firm.
Mr Straw said it was a great irony that the Gulf crises had put a question mark over the Saudi Tornado order.
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