GCHQ

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:07 pm on 10 June 2013.

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Photo of Dennis Skinner Dennis Skinner Labour, Bolsover 4:07, 10 June 2013

Following on from what my hon. Friend Mr Campbell said, and the fact that GCHQ has been involved in trade union disputes for a long time, can the Foreign Secretary give me an assurance? He will not explain precisely how this interception takes place on the advice of a Minister; but surely, if the Prime Minister of the day in 1984 said that the miners and the NUM were the “enemy within”, would that not give the green light to GCHQ to intervene in every single coalfield? Because that is what we believed.