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Ukraine, Middle East, North Africa and Security

Proceeding contribution from Liam Fox (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 10 September 2014. It occurred during Debate on Ukraine, Middle East, North Africa and Security.

I hope that my hon. Friend feels better.

All conflicts are battles of ideology. That is particularly true of those who return from the region having been involved in jihad in support of ISIS. When the Home Secretary winds up the debate, I hope she will make it clear that in this country we have no place for the concept that someone can take a sabbatical from civilisation and then apologise and come back as though nothing has happened. There has to be a price for those who take up arms against their own country by proxy.

My hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border made an interesting point about resourcing our security services. It is worth mentioning that we spend on GCHQ, the security services and Secret Intelligence Service in a year what we spend every six days on the national health service. As a country, we must think about our priorities and just how high up that level of priority the security of our people is. Supposedly, that is the first duty of Government.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
585 c954 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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