Abu Qatada (Deportation) Debate

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Department: Home Office

Abu Qatada (Deportation)

Karl Turner Excerpts
Monday 8th July 2013

(10 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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My hon. Friend tempts me to comment on a matter that I hope will more properly be the subject of announcements in this House before the summer recess. I am aware of the arguments that have been made about the operation of the European arrest warrant in relation to its usefulness and to some of the problems that apply to it.

Karl Turner Portrait Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East) (Lab)
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It will be a relief to all our constituents that this man has now been deported, but what advice has the Attorney-General given the Home Secretary on scrapping the Human Rights Act and coming out of the convention?

Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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As I indicated earlier, in answer to an hon. Friend who asked about the Human Rights Act, it is absolutely no surprise that a Conservative should stand here and talk about scrapping the Human Rights Act, because we were elected to this Parliament having stood in a general election on a manifesto that said exactly that.