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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Draft Legislative Programme (14 May 2008) has video

Gordon Brown: ...'s advice, none of this year's major Bills would have got through. We would not have decisions on energy, planning, airports and many major issues that face the country, and we would not have the ID cards that we need for the security of our people. If we had taken the Conservative party's advice, we would have put all the tax cuts into stamp duty on shares and inheritance tax instead of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: National Security Strategy (19 Mar 2008) has video

Gordon Brown: The primary duty of Government, and our abiding obligation, is and will always be the safety of all British people and the protection of the British national interest, so, following approval by the National Security Committee and the Cabinet, the Government are today publishing the first national security strategy. It states that although our obligation to protect the British people and the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Engagements (19 Mar 2008) has video

Gordon Brown: I was in favour of them then, and I repeat that now. I ask the right hon. Gentleman the question that he never answered: is he in favour of compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals—yes or no? We are in favour. Is he against?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jan 2008) has video

Gordon Brown: It is the Government's policy to move ahead with this, but subject to a vote of Parliament, and depending on how the voluntary scheme works. I ask the right hon. Gentleman again: does he support ID cards for foreign nationals—yes or no? He says that he is against them; is he in favour of them for foreign nationals?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jan 2008) has video

Gordon Brown: I see that the right hon. Gentleman's incursion into identity cards did not last long. He cannot answer the central question of whether he supports ID cards for foreign nationals. He could not give me the answer on two occasions. I suggest that the whole country supports ID cards for foreign nationals, and that that is the best protection we have, and one of the best against illegal...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: National Security (14 Nov 2007) has video

Gordon Brown: ...to update the House, as I promised in July, on the measures we are taking at home to root out terrorism and strengthen the resilience of communities to resist extremist influences following the incidents of 29 June and 30 June. As everyone in this House knows, to succeed, those measures will require not just military and security resources but more policing and intelligence, and an...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: National Security (25 Jul 2007)

Gordon Brown: ...London and Glasgow —stood firm in the face of threats. Our calmness and steadfastness as a nation sent a powerful message across the world that we will not yield to terrorism, or ever be intimidated by it. Those events were the 15th attempted terrorist plot on British soil since 2001. As previously set out, the police and security services are currently having to contend with around...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: National Security (25 Jul 2007)

Gordon Brown: Well, the hon. Gentleman supports biometric visas, which are the equivalent of identity cards for people who have been in the country for more than six months. I hope that we can debate the issue in future, because it seems to me that e-border controls, which we can tighten up, and border controls—we have made proposals on them today—can work properly only if we complement them...