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Devonport and the Royal Navy (5 Mar 2008) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...frigates, small aircraft carriers carrying anti-submarine helicopters, and deep-water minesweepers optimised for the cold north Atlantic. The threats of today and tomorrow arise from international terrorism and from rogue or failing states. These in turn are intertwined with a series of other issues, such as the rise of piracy, the trafficking of drugs and people, and humanitarian...

Point of Order: Defence in the UK (26 Apr 2007)

Linda Gilroy: ...that in the information war the Iraqis and Iranians are much better at articulating what they are fighting for, as well as what they are fighting against? By using the expression "the war against terror", we have been less good at describing what we are fighting for.

Point of Order: Trident (14 Mar 2007)

Linda Gilroy: ...we use hard power to make that space for ourselves and others to do the peacekeeping, peace-making and stabilisation work. In the even more uncertain times ahead—in which state-sponsored terrorism might well be joined by tensions arising from population movements driven by climate change, drought and water shortages in particular, and by greater use of nuclear energy in the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Dec 2001)

Ms Linda Gilroy: Three months on from 11 September, will the Prime Minister share with the House his view on the outlook for fighting terrorism? In that regard, will he say what importance he attaches to the emergency legislation before the House this week?

Written Answers — Defence: International Terrorism (26 Nov 2001)

Ms Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on his plans for the future involvement of British forces in combating international terrorism.

International Terrorism (4 Oct 2001)

Ms Linda Gilroy: ..., Madam Deputy Speaker. "Britain's national security is based on the mutual support that comes from membership of NATO. That will not change . . . there are new threats to our people from crime and terrorism. Instability around the world can affect us directly and we have global responsibility to play . . . " The person who drafted those words at the beginning of the defence section of our...

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