Tunisia, and European Council

I thank the right hon. and learned Lady for her remarks and for the way in which she made them. S...

Following the awful events in Tunisia, which resulted in the dreadful and untimely death of one o...

First, let me send my sympathies and condolences to my hon. Friend’s constituents. There will be ...

I thank the Prime Minister for his statement on Tunisia, and for the measures he has taken so far...

The case to which the hon. Gentleman has referred is absolutely heartbreaking. All of us have rea...

The thoughts of my constituents are with all the victims, especially the three from our local are...

I can absolutely give my hon. Friend that assurance. As well as tales of great tragedy and sadnes...

I thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement. We on the SNP Benches share all th...

First, I agree with the hon. Gentleman on the use of the term “Islamic State”. This is particular...

The Prime Minister will be aware that jihadists talk about three types of jihad: jihad of the ton...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course there are, in part, some military answers to ...

I should like to add my deep condolences to those of the Prime Minister and my right hon. and lea...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. We all read the moving story of what that brave and ...

Yesterday, I learned that two of my constituents had suffered in this callous attack. Cheryl Mell...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising that case, and for the way in which he did it. The assurance I...

I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. In the past two days, I have spoken to my constitue...

I thank the hon. Lady for the way she put her question, because I share all the frustration of th...

Tunisia’s transition to democracy is the one ray of political light coming out of the Arab spring...

First, I agree with my hon. Friend that helping Tunisia on its political journey is as important ...

One of the victims of this appalling act was my constituent Mrs Lisa Burbidge, a grandmother of f...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question and for paying tribute to Lisa Burbidge. We will cert...

I represent a couple of constituents who were on holiday in Tunisia but mercifully escaped unscat...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. We are urging social media companies to work with us and...

On behalf of the Liberal Democrats, I echo the condolences and heartfelt sympathy that have been ...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. If we are successfully to defeat this threat t...

Does not the economic and social damage being done by the tragic conflict between Greek democracy...

My right hon. Friend always puts his case very powerfully. In many ways, what this shows is that ...

May I join others in expressing my shock and sadness at the horrific events in Sousse? Our though...

I thank the hon. Lady for the thoughtful way in which she put her question. My answer is that Bri...

I join the Prime Minister in expressing strong words in condemnation of the evil slaughter of Bri...

I go to these negotiations as an optimist and a believer that we can get a good deal for Britain....

I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement. The sympathies of my right hon. and hon. Friends and, i...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. We are backing those Governments who want to see an ...

I know that all other members of the British-Tunisia all-party parliamentary group will wish to e...

First of all, we will help, and the offer is there. Also, because today not only the Home Secreta...

Like everybody in our community, I was shocked and deeply saddened to hear that Jim and Ann McQui...

Let me add my condolences concerning the couple from Cumbernauld who have been lost in this terri...

Understandably, we have centred on one young Tunisian man who carried out this massacre, and poss...

My right hon. Friend makes a very important point. There were some extraordinary stories of coura...

All decent people have in their thoughts or prayers the victims in Tunisia and their families. Ev...

I am very grateful for what the right hon. Gentleman says. What more we can do is make sure that ...

There can be no greater agony than that being experienced by the people whose friends and relatio...

My hon. Friend asks an entirely fair question. I can assure him that at the Cobra meetings that i...

A family from Airdrie who were desperate to get home from Sousse were told by their airline, Thom...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question, because I think that it tells a real story,...

The Prime Minister will want to extend his condolences to the family of young Carly Lovett, my co...

First, may I join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to Carly Lovett? We have all heard the heartbr...

Two and a half years ago, in his first speech of the UK’s presidency of the G8, the Prime Ministe...

The right hon. Gentleman asks a very direct question. There are several platforms that can work. ...

Co-operation, such as it has been, in combating Daesh has focused on the military situation. Howe...

I would not entirely agree with my hon. Friend’s description of this. Looking at what allied air ...

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Order. Literally dozens of colleagues are still seeking to catch my eye, and I am keen to accommo...

First, I would like to take this opportunity to agree with the sentiments of this House in condem...

First of all, of course I commit to engage with all communities, and we will continue to do that....

I echo the Prime Minister’s tribute to the victims of Sousse, including my constituent, Sue Davey...

I also pay tribute to Sue and Scott, as my hon. Friend has done. He is right to commend the local...

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. This appalling act of terror ag...

I very much agree with the hon. Lady, particularly on rebuilding broken states affected by confli...

Does the Prime Minister agree that no security service in the world, including the Tunisian secur...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, but that reinforces the point that, because we are not necess...

Obviously, what happened is appalling, tragic and terrible and has to be condemned in every way, ...

If the hon. Gentleman is asking whether I regret the action we took to stop Colonel Gaddafi massa...

A powerful antidote to the ISIL poison would be if young British Muslims could see Arab Sunnis wh...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need to build an Iraq where its Prime Minister is clearly ...

May I press the Prime Minister on a question I asked him a couple of weeks ago about the Sunnis a...

The hon. Gentleman asks absolutely the right question. I have personally raised this issue with P...

Every year the EU is a smaller and smaller part of the world’s economy, its currency is a basket ...

I sometimes wish that my hon. Friend would not speak in riddles, but be clear about what he reall...

I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement and his words of condolence for the families who have so...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. The Home Office has now set up an organisation...

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Order. A single, short sentence question could now represent a parliamentary triumph. I call Mr B...

Will the Prime Minister explain how a mere promise of treaty change can be made legally binding?<...

In very much the same way, when Ireland had a treaty change and a protocol addressing that treaty...

I want to join the Prime Minister, my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Camberwell and...

The hon. Gentleman speaks with great knowledge about this, and I have admired what he has said ab...

I am sure the Prime Minister can imagine the sadness in Blackpool given that two of my constituen...

My hon. Friend is right. Money is being spent in countries such as Tunisia, but I suspect it is n...

I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement, and I ask that we all join in sending our condolences t...

Let me join the hon. Lady in paying tribute to Claire Windass and mourning her loss. Lessons have...

My constituent Stuart Cullen lost his life on Friday. Can my right hon. Friend assure me that he ...

I can certainly give that assurance to my hon. Friend. With him, I mourn the loss of his constitu...

I add my condolences to everybody affected by this tragedy. What discussions are the Government h...

The hon. Lady raises an important point. My understanding is that the companies have offered trav...

Will the Prime Minister please pass on my thanks to his fellow European Union leaders? Every time...

I do not want to disappoint my hon. Friend too much, but actually the reception I have had from m...

My thoughts and prayers are with those caught up in the horrific events in Tunisia, including tho...

The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. The SDSR should be about these issues, as well a...

Naomi and Carol Wearing, two of my constituents from Darwen, were injured in the attacks last Fri...

Let me join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to his constituents who were caught up in this terri...

Earlier this year, the Prime Minister said he wanted proper, full-on treaty change. How can we ta...

I have not dropped this demand at all.

With my constituent John Metcalf recovering from his wounds in Tunisia, together with his uninjur...

Different European countries have different views about integration—some sign up absolutely to th...

This atrocity awakens and provokes many hideous memories of atrocities of mass murder in my own c...

Not enough. The aid and assistance has been much more focused on building up Tunisian democracy a...

My right hon. Friend has already said that the threat here remains “severe”. He and my constituen...

I will not comment on a specific report, but my hon. Friend is right that the threat level in Bri...

I am ashamed to think that this summer many of us will swim in a sea where people have drowned si...

I just do not agree with the hon. Lady. Britain is fulfilling its moral obligations by picking up...

I am delighted to report that my constituent, Macauley Arnold, his girlfriend and her family were...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. There are many examples of this sort of courage and kindn...

I associate myself with the comments of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on th...

The short answer is that they will not make any short-term impact, but they might, in my view, ma...

As part of our Prevent strategy, we rightly ban hate preachers from coming to the UK. Sadly, thei...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. We can ban the preachers, but we must also look at their...

On the day before this terrible incident, a neo-Nazi was convicted of a machete attack on a rando...

I will certainly do that. We have acted together with the Internet Watch Foundation to take down ...

The right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) rightly highlighted the ...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Indeed, the role of women was an important one in Tunisi...

I give my best wishes to Matthew James, a gas engineer in Swansea who took three bullets in prote...

I think that the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right in how he puts it. They have a role to play, ...

Today, the Prime Minister has said that he will put the common market at the heart of our EU memb...

I thank my hon. Friend for his support; I want to continue this ever closer union between us for ...

In Leicester, we all hope and pray for the safe return of Ray and Angela Fisher. I am grateful fo...

I join the hon. Gentleman in wishing his constituents well. On building a united front, there is ...

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Order. I am afraid that we have no time for questions with preambles, but if colleagues are willi...

Following last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Tunisia, my constituents John and Janet Stocker are ...

I can certainly give my hon. Friend that assurance. Victim identification specialists and police ...

In the midst of this tragedy, will the Prime Minister join me in commending all those who went ab...

I certainly will. I was delighted to join the Armed Forces Day parade in Guildford. There was an ...

I welcome the Foreign Office’s sensible and measured advice, which my right hon. Friend has expla...

I assure my hon. Friend that we are talking to the Tunisian authorities right now; the Home Secre...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the bravery of UK and Tunisian citizens alongside each other...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This will take resolve, patience and determination among Gove...

Does the Prime Minister agree that, just as we need to do all we can to disrupt vile propaganda f...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. The media have to exercise their own view about social r...

As somebody from the Muslim faith, whose father and grandfather were imams and whose uncle is an ...

My hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge on this issue. The short answer is yes— Members of Par...

I join the Prime Minister in praising our brave Royal Air Force for the role that it is playing i...

I will look into the funding from Baghdad. All that I can say is that we are helping the Kurdish ...

Although I welcome the extension of the resettlement programme for Syrian refugees, are we not op...

If one takes a five to 10-year view of the number of people we have given asylum to, we are consi...

Does the Prime Minister agree that it is fundamental that we retake complete sovereignty over con...

It is important to have strong border control, but the situation in Calais demonstrates the impor...

What steps are being taken to ensure that intelligence is properly shared by national security or...

We are sharing intelligence. Obviously, we have different relations with different countries, but...

In relation to safety here at home, does the Prime Minister agree that when the security services...

I absolutely agree. One reason why we want to alter the arrangements in the Human Rights Act is t...

I share the Prime Minister’s sentiments about the families who have been bereaved.

Given th...

I will certainly look at that point. Enormous pressure is being put on places such as Malta, and ...

My constituent Miss Richardson was due to travel this Wednesday to the beach resort where this he...

We have encouraged the tour operators to treat people properly. To be fair to them, they have off...

I would like to add my tribute to Bruce Wilkinson, who lost his life on Friday. His daughter is a...

Let me join in the tributes to Bruce Wilkinson and the way that his family have handled this terr...

I have not forgotten the voice of Kettering, whose patience is now rewarded.

With regard to the desperate and growing wave of human misery that is taking to the Mediterranean...

We have looked at what the Australians have done, and we have also looked at what the Spanish did...

I am most grateful to the Prime Minister, to the Leader of the Opposition, and to the 70 Back Ben...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

Points of order come after statements. We are saving the hon. Gentleman up, if I can put it that ...