My Lords, did my noble friend see the article in yesterday’s Sunday Times about Foreign Office expenditure on some weird and wonderful overseas aid projects? Will she now urge the Foreign Office to divert that rather wasteful expenditure to Tunisia, which is in the front line fighting extremism? The Islamic extremists know that they have to destroy Tunisia because Tunisia has opted for democracy and for keeping Islamic fundamentalism firmly in its box and out of government. Tunisia needs all the help it can get because, if it is destroyed, no other country is safe.
Tunisia and European Council
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Blencathra
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 29 June 2015.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Tunisia and European Council.
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