Refugee Crisis in Europe Debate

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Department: Home Office

Refugee Crisis in Europe

Robert Neill Excerpts
Tuesday 8th September 2015

(8 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper
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I am conscious that I have taken many interventions. Many people want to get in and I really want to complete my speech, so I will take just two further interventions and then complete my remarks.

Robert Neill Portrait Robert Neill
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The right hon. Lady makes a very fair point about the need in the long term for what she terms a new Marshall plan. I have sympathy with that, but the Marshall plan only worked once the totalitarian barbarians in Europe had been removed. How far is she prepared to go to support those of us who think we should use every means to remove the barbarians who are currently destroying these countries?

Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper
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That is another debate. As I have said clearly, there is no quick military or foreign policy fix that will solve the humanitarian challenge we face. Nobody believes that there is a quick answer that will solve these problems.