Syria: Refugees and Counter-terrorism Debate
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Greg Mulholland
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Syria: Refugees and Counter-terrorism
Greg Mulholland Excerpts(8 years, 8 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
I am sure that all those issues will be looked at by the Home Secretary’s committee.
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West) (LD)
In the 1840s and 1850s, the Yorkshire solicitor Thomas Constable was estimated to have saved the lives of 500 refugees fleeing the appalling humanitarian disaster of An Gorta Mór. Now that the Prime Minister has properly recognised the present situation as a refugee crisis, will he give us an assurance that he and all his Ministers in the Government will give the necessary leadership to ensure that we keep the nation together in our actions to deal with it, and that they will not allow anyone to use it to divide us for political gain?
The Prime Minister
Yes, I can certainly give that assurance. The whole country will recognise, as should political leaders, that this is a good approach that we can all work with.