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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Iraq (27 Jun 2007) has video

Tony Blair: ...I do not, for the reasons that I have often given. What is important is that those people who are fighting us in Iraq, who are either backed by elements in the Iranian regime and who are using terrorism to try to kill our troops, or al-Qaeda up in Baghdad who are using the most evil carnage through terrorist bombs to kill as many innocent civilians as they possibly can—those two...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Iraq (27 Jun 2007) has video

Tony Blair: I thank my right hon. Friend for that. It is important to emphasise that, even as we try to deal with the new situation in Iraq, which is about terrorism visited on the country in substantial part by outside elements, we should never forget the hundreds of thousands of people who died in Iraq under Saddam, including those who died through the use of chemical weapons, or, indeed, the 1 million...

Oral Answers to Questions — Public Accounts Commission: European Council (25 Jun 2007)

Tony Blair: ...institutions. With the increase from 15 to 27 member states, change is essential, but with this agreement, we can now concentrate on issues that really matter: energy security, organised crime and terrorism, globalisation, further enlargement and making Europe's voice more effective internationally. This agenda is surely quintessentially one in Britain's interests. Over the past 10 years,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Public Accounts Commission: European Council (25 Jun 2007)

Tony Blair: ...in today's world, it is just not sensible for us to separate ourselves from Europe. None of the big issues that we need to deal with today—globalisation, mass migration, organised crime and terrorism, and the environment—can be dealt with by the nation state on its own. That is the purpose of the European Union.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (20 Jun 2007)

Tony Blair: The position on Iraq was the position of the whole Government. I happen to believe that removing Saddam was the right thing to do, as is standing up against those people who would by terrorism prevent democracy from flourishing in Iraq. I pay tribute to the support provided by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor. It is important that those fighting us in Iraq understand that our position on...

Prime Minister: Engagements (13 Jun 2007)

Tony Blair: ...my advice as to what damage the investigation would do if it continued. I gave that advice, because of the huge importance of working with Saudi Arabia on the middle east peace process, on counter-terrorism and on the situation in the middle east. I stick by that. Frankly, the idea that such an investigation could be conducted without doing damage to our relationship is from cloud cuckoo...

Written Ministerial Statements — Prime Minister: Cabinet Committees (16 May 2007)

Tony Blair: ...the Home Office and the then Department for Constitutional Affairs. Alongside this, I announced the creation of new Cabinet Committees on Crime and the Criminal Justice System and on Security and Terrorism. I am now announcing the membership and terms of reference of the new Committees. Responsibility for the National Offender Management Service, and for criminal law and sentencing policy,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 May 2007)

Tony Blair: He is wrong for this reason: if we want the Home Secretary to focus on terrorism, it is important that we make sure that the Home Office is better able to do so by moving prison and probation services to where the courts are. That makes sense, it is what is done in many other countries, and it is a far better idea, if I may say so, than retaining all those functions in the Home Office and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 May 2007)

Tony Blair: ...reduced by 20 per cent; the collection of fines is up; and there are extra numbers of police and community support officers, and antisocial behaviour laws. If we want the Home Office to focus on terrorism—I think everyone agrees that we face a different and new threat today—it is sensible to move part of its functions to a Ministry of Justice. That is why it is the right thing...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 May 2007)

Tony Blair: The reason is the one I have given. The result of looking at how we best focus the Home Office on fighting terrorism was not to do what the right hon. Gentleman proposes—his foolish idea of having two Cabinet Ministers with the same responsibility—but to move some of the functions out of the Home Office into the Ministry of Justice. If the right hon. Gentleman would move them...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 May 2007)

Tony Blair: ...or three years in Iraq; it is important that people understand it. What is happening in Iraq is essentially that al-Qaeda on the one hand and elements of the Iranian regime on the other are backing terrorism in that country, the purpose of which is to destroy the prospect of that country being able to have the democracy its people have voted for and want. In those circumstances, it is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 May 2007)

Tony Blair: I do, of course, recall that conversation with my right hon. Friend. The Omagh bomb was a terrible and destructive act of terrorism, and in its aftermath the choice had to be made whether it should be allowed to wreck the peace process or whether it should mean that we redouble our efforts to reach peace. Fortunately, the will of the people in Northern Ireland was that the terrorists should...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 May 2007)

Tony Blair: ...are saying, "Yes, we wish you to go when the time is right, but not before." And it is not right yet. We still need to ensure, whether in the south or up in Baghdad, that those people who, through terrorism, are trying to destroy the possibility of Iraq getting on its feet are unable to do so. Of course, it is difficult at the moment—our troops are facing an immensely challenging and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (2 May 2007)

Tony Blair: My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the magnificent work that our security services and police do in protecting this country from terrorism. It is worth reminding ourselves that Operation Crevice was an enormous success for those services, focusing as it did on one of the many different plots against which they protect our country, day in and day out. I entirely...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (2 May 2007)

Tony Blair: ...else it needs, it would not be responsible for us to have a further full independent inquiry that would simply divert the Security Service, the police and others from their task of fighting terrorism.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (2 May 2007)

Tony Blair: ...Saddam Hussein and his two sons would still be running Iraq. [ Interruption. ] Yes they would. Hundreds of thousands of people died in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. We removed Saddam. We are fighting terrorism now in Iraq. Our troops are there with the United Nations mandate and the full support of the Iraqi Government. It is not British soldiers or indeed American soldiers that are...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (2 May 2007)

Tony Blair: ...on human rights. The reason why there is a problem is the court case, I think in 1996, in relation to—I think I am right in saying this—those who were alleged to be engaged in terrorism in respect of India at the time. As a result of that case—I think it is called the Chahal case—this difficulty has been created. We are trying to get that decision overturned in...

Written Ministerial Statements — Prime Minister: Machinery of Government Change (29 Mar 2007)

Tony Blair: ...'s policy response to security, public protection and the criminal justice system issues over the next decade. The Home Secretary will be developing our capabilities to tackle the threat posed by terrorism. The security and counter-terrorism changes will have immediate effect. Alongside this, a new Ministry of Justice will be established, with the National Offender Management Service and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (14 Mar 2007)

Tony Blair: ...my right hon. Friend is right to say that the only realistic way to get a solution is to come back to the 2002 agreement and make sure that it is implemented. I know that he will also agree that terrorism and violence can never be the way to achieve a negotiated solution.

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: European Council (12 Mar 2007)

Tony Blair: ...our position. The issue for us is whether, in this national unity Government, it is possible to get Hamas to understand that we cannot support people who attempt to achieve their aims through terrorism and that we cannot, in particular, take forward negotiations on two states if Hamas is saying that one of those states does not have the right to exist. That is our position, it has been our...