London Attacks
Yesterday, an act of terrorism tried to silence our democracy, but today we meet as normal, as ge...
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Order. Colleagues, I am advised that we have been joined today by French Foreign Minister Jean-Ma...
I join you, Mr Speaker, in welcoming our colleagues from France here today, and I associate mysel...
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I join the right hon. Gentleman and you, Mr Speaker, in expressing our gratitude for the support ...
I join my right hon. Friend in everything she says in respect of the deaths and injuries that hav...
I absolutely agree with my right hon. and learned Friend. In a sense, he refers to the fact that ...
I begin by associating myself and my hon. and right hon. Friends with everything that has been sa...
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his words. He is absolutely correct that now is a time for u...
I commend my right hon. Friend’s powerful statement and add my prayers to hers for those who have...
I absolutely share the thoughts that my right hon. Friend has set out. He is right: this place is...
I thank the Prime Minister for her statement and for early sight of it. I also thank her for her ...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. He is of course right that, as others have said, we ...
Although yesterday’s dreadful events took place within the boundaries of my constituency, I know ...
I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend. It is so important that we continue to show not jus...
I thank the Prime Minister for her words here today, and also her words on the steps of Downing S...
The right hon. and learned Lady speaks very well and I utterly agree with her words.
Some of us were present 38 years ago and nearby when Airey Neave was martyred. The lesson that we...
My hon. Friend makes a very important point. The Metropolitan police are bringing together a numb...
May I join others in commending the Prime Minister for her statement last night and her statement...
The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: the country is united. People of all faiths and non...
I too send my sympathies to all those bereaved or injured in yesterday’s horrific attack. As we r...
Over the nearly 20 years that I have been in this House, the level of security on the parliamenta...
May I too commend the Prime Minister for her words last evening and today, when she spoke for all...
I absolutely agree with the right hon. Gentleman—we are able to be here today because of the brav...
As a Back Bencher, it seems to me that both the Prime Minister and the leaders of the opposition ...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He refers to a specific example in the past when, once again,...
The Prime Minister is dealing with this outrage in a calm and assured way. Does she agree that an...
The right hon. Gentleman is right. As he knows from his experience, our counter-terrorism strateg...
May I commend the Prime Minister for her very fitting statement? When police officers die, they l...
I am very happy to encourage people to do exactly as my hon. Friend suggests. It is a valuable or...
I, too, welcome the Prime Minister’s words, as she speaks for all of us with the backing of all p...
The right hon. Lady is right; it was a cowardly attack. Parliament has particularly focused on th...
May I commend the Prime Minister’s statement? I also commend the Prime Minister for her reassurin...
I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. As I indicated in my statement, we have taken steps to e...
I speak for my party, Plaid Cymru. I commend the Prime Minister for her words today. All of us be...
What is absolutely appropriate is the response that this House has shown today: it has shown grat...
I thank the Prime Minister for her statement. I have been an MP for 25 years, and I have seen the...
I thank my hon. Friend, and I am sure the House authorities will wish to consider the point that ...
As we mourn those who were so cruelly cut down yesterday, give our grateful thanks to the police ...
I absolutely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. We must be very clear that the voices of evil a...
While our hearts go to all those people who were wounded and murdered yesterday, and to all the p...
I thank my hon. Friend for not just the compassion but the passion with which he has spoken about...
Yesterday, we saw absolutely the best of security, policing and the emergency services. We also s...
The hon. Lady makes a very important point. It is all too easy for us to come to this Chamber to ...
I thank the Prime Minister for her statement this morning and for her message last night in Downi...
I reassure my hon. Friend that through the refresh of the strategic defence and security review w...
May I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s words and those of my right hon. Friend the Lead...
The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. As he says, it is not about individuals in this Hou...
May I start by commending the Prime Minister for a very powerful speech, and particularly for the...
I have been struck by the number of messages I have received from a number of foreign leaders to ...
We recognise the immense bravery of all concerned yesterday, but should we not also recognise tha...
The hon. Gentleman is right. I believe the British public stand with this Parliament in wanting t...
I support all that the Prime Minister has said and done, and my thoughts are with all those who h...
My hon. Friend is right that it is important we defeat such extremism and deal with it at that ea...
Order. I had intended to call another Birmingham Member, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfie...
May I thank the Prime Minister for her leadership at a bleak moment for our country? As the brave...
We should not be making any attempt to demonise individual communities. We should recognise that ...
In the wake of yesterday’s evil, tragic, but unfortunately not wholly unexpected attack on this p...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right that it is a balance. We live in an open and free democracy. W...
For the first time in this House, I want to agree with everything that has been said by every Mem...
I join the right hon. Lady in commending the staff of Westminster Abbey, who played a role in sup...
May I commend my right hon. Friend for the resolute, brave and courageous way she has stood up fo...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Terrorism will not destroy our way of life; it will not win. ...
PC Keith Palmer did not return home from work yesterday to his family so that the rest of us in t...
I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman. As he says, the way that people came together, showed...
It is reported that what happened yesterday was an act of Islamic terror. Does the Prime Minister...
I absolutely agree. It is wrong to describe what happened as Islamic terrorism; it is Islamist te...
I pay tribute to the Prime Minister and wish her and her Cabinet well in their deliberations as w...
I assure the hon. Gentleman that that support will be available. Of course, the Metropolitan poli...
Parliament is a different place this morning. On my way in from the tube, I realised that million...
As I indicated earlier, proper consideration will be given to the issue that my hon. Friend raise...
I very much associate myself with the Prime Minister’s statement and everyone’s comments, and I p...
The hon. Lady speaks well on this. When I was Home Secretary, two events always brought home to m...
I thank the Prime Minister for the tone with which she has reacted. She has genuinely spoken for ...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That shows the importance of all our faiths working together,...
My prayers are with all those who were injured, with all those who lost their lives and their fam...
I commend the hon. Gentleman for the comments he has just made and for the stance he has consiste...
I join hon. Members in saluting my fellow Dorset county Member, my hon. Friend the Member for Bou...
I think that is a wonderful tribute. In a very simple way, it encapsulates everything hon. Member...
Like many Members, in the 16 years I have been a Member, I have walked every day through Carriage...
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. It must have been particularly difficult for those childr...
As we were evacuated from the House yesterday, I too met several stoical school groups, who had b...
I absolutely agree. Those visits are also important in helping to promote the values we share. Th...
My thoughts are with PC Palmer’s family and the families of all the victims of yesterday’s terror...
The hon. Lady is right. There is an immediate focus on the event that has taken place, but, as sh...
I thank the Prime Minister for her statement and offer my condolences to all affected. I am from ...
The hon. Lady makes a very good point. Sadly, over time with a number of incidents we have come t...
I commend my right hon. Friend’s statement. I hope she agrees with me that Great Britain’s police...
In terms of protective security, work will be done with the parliamentary estate to see if anythi...
I think everyone who works on the parliamentary estate has at some point considered what they wou...
I am very happy to join the hon. Gentleman in commending the work of the nursery staff. It must h...
I join all the tributes that have been paid. I think those of us who were locked down in the Cham...
Yes, indeed. I join the hon. Gentleman in commending the actions of both the Chairman of Ways and...
Yesterday showed us the worst of humanity, but it also showed us—much, much more—the best of huma...
I join the hon. Lady in that. I think that all faith communities in the country will be coming to...
The Prime Minister has been exemplary in this instance, as, indeed, she was in relation to Hillsb...
The bravery shown by PC Keith Palmer and his act of sacrifice should be recognised in an appropri...
Yesterday, on Westminster Bridge and in New Palace Yard, many members of the public and Members o...
My hon. Friend has made an important and very good point, and I join him in that encouragement. T...
A key aim of any terrorist is to exploit the completely natural and inevitable sense of public in...
The question of the oxygen of publicity is obviously important, and I think we should all reflect...
I would like to add my words of condolence and gratitude to those already so eloquently expressed...
That is an important point: it is part of our democracy that members of the public—the constituen...
My hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah) mentioned the House of Co...
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her words, and, again, for the warm way in which she has spoke...
The murderer who used both his car and a knife as indiscriminate weapons of murder yesterday care...
It absolutely does show the values that underpin our way of life that the police’s first thought ...
I commend the Prime Minister on her strength of character and leadership at this time: cometh the...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. Obviously, it is important that any lessons learned ...
This morning I spoke with the imam of Swansea University mosque, Sheikh Mohsen, who wanted to sha...
This act of terror was not done in the name of a religion; it was done, as I said earlier, as a r...
I thank the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and all colleagues for what they have sa...