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Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: ...not only support our forces in Afghanistan but we support the reason why they are in Afghanistan, and that is to help deliver security and to stop Afghanistan from once again becoming a haven for terrorists. But we must be clear about the future and about the different options that we face. One option, favoured by some, is an immediate withdrawal. I do not believe that that would be in our...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Afghanistan and Pakistan (29 Apr 2009) has video

David Cameron: ..., including a recent one in Karachi? We all welcome the increase in UK aid that the Prime Minister has announced. Will he tell us how that aid will be linked to Pakistan's performance in fighting terrorism? In particular, what help will the Government offer Pakistan to deal with extremist propaganda? Ambassador Holbrooke, who was in Britain recently, has drawn attention to the scores of...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (3 Dec 2008) has video

David Cameron: ...where does the Prime Minister stand on this issue? [Interruption.] Does he think it is right for a Member of Parliament to be arrested and held for nine hours, to have his offices searched by anti-terrorism police, and to have his house raided and his daughter reduced to tears?

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (3 Dec 2008) has video

David Cameron: ...being arrested for doing his job. I am not relaxed and, incidentally, neither is Mr. Speaker, about the police coming and searching offices in Parliament. I am not relaxed about nine anti-terrorism officers going into the house of my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford and reducing his family to tears. I used to think that the hon. Gentleman believed in standing up for Parliament. I must...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (3 Dec 2008) has video

David Cameron: ...government. I hope that the Prime Minister will give us a realistic assessment of the situation when he speaks. The work of our armed forces also reminds us of the threat that we face from global terrorism. We saw it last week with the appalling attacks in Mumbai, and our thoughts are with the friends and families of all those who lost their lives. We should be clear about what the...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (3 Dec 2008) has video

David Cameron: ...of financial bankruptcy. We live in a country with more than 1 million violent crimes a year—almost doubled under Labour—on the brink of social bankruptcy. We live in a country where counter-terrorism police are used to arrest MPs who hold the Government to account, and that is what I call political bankruptcy. The Prime Minister is wrong in recession; he is wrong for the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (18 Jun 2008) has video

David Cameron: ...we are sending our young men and women to fight and possibly die in the heat and dust of Afghanistan, let us be absolutely united in saying that their fight is our fight. This is a fight against terrorism and extremism—not just in Afghanistan—that affects the safety of our streets and our way of life too. On the one hand, there are more roadside and suicide bombs in Helmand...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Jun 2008) has video

David Cameron: This party does not need any reminders about the importance of fighting terrorism. The first Member of Parliament I ever wrote a speech for, Ian Gow, was murdered by the IRA. The first Member of Parliament who ever represented me, Airey Neave, is commemorated above that Door, murdered by the IRA. But we will not fight terrorism effectively if we undermine our liberties. Let us have a look at...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Apr 2008) has video

David Cameron: ...Will the Prime Minister listen to his own Director of Public Prosecutions, who said: "we do not perceive any need for the period of 28 days to be increased" ——[Official Report, Counter-Terrorism Public Bill Committee, 22 April 2008; c. 53, Q136.] and "our experience is that we have managed comfortably with 28 days"? ——[Official Report, Counter-Terrorism Public Bill...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Apr 2008) has video

David Cameron: The Prime Minister is wrong. We have addressed the substantive issues. We said, "Use intercept evidence in terror trials," and he is beginning to take up that proposal. We said, "Question suspects after charge," and that is in the Counter-Terrorism Bill. We said, "Let's have a proper border police force," and the Prime Minister got the "border" bit, but does not seem to understand the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Apr 2008) has video

David Cameron: ...because it is right, but because it is part of a political calculation. With the 10p tax rate, it was about trying to pose as a tax cutter. This time, it is about trying to pose as being tough on terror. Everybody knows what is happening. Today, apparently, he is admitting mistakes. Why does he not admit the biggest mistake of all: that he puts political calculation and...

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

David Cameron: ...am trying to reply to the statement. The idea of a national security strategy is one that we welcome. The need for a national security approach is clear: the threats to our national security, from terrorism to climate change and energy security, have proliferated, and the Government must adapt to deal with them. That is why, in 2006, my party said that it was time not just for a national...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Chilcot Report (6 Feb 2008)

David Cameron: May I first thank the Prime Minister for his statement, and join him in paying tribute to our security services? Nothing matters more than our national security and keeping us safe from terror. Our aim should be to catch, convict and imprison more terrorists. Last year, I pressed Tony Blair to make intercept evidence available in court. When he was not prepared to take that up straight away,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Jan 2008)

David Cameron: What people will have heard is that the Prime Minister cannot answer a straight question. Let us try another one. Keeping our streets safe also means tackling terrorism. Two months ago, I identified and named in this House a number of specific preachers of hate who should not be allowed into this country. Will the Prime Minister confirm that the Government have accepted that as well, and that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Jan 2008)

David Cameron: ...of vision, never mind the relaunches; just focus on keeping us safe." In a week when the prisons adviser says that they have got no prisons strategy, when President Musharraf says that they have no terrorism strategy and when the only good idea that they have about police reform has come from the Conservative party, should he not just accept that people are not safe under Labour?

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

David Cameron: ...the new force will have new powers or will it have to rely on existing powers? Similarly, will it have new money or will it have to rely on existing budgets? The second area of concern is counter-terrorism. As I said, we welcome the Government's adoption of our proposal that it should be possible to question suspects after they have been charged. The Government have also agreed to our...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (6 Nov 2007)

David Cameron: ...of Parliament sitting for English seats who have the decisive say—if the Government would like to put that in their constitutional renewal Bill, they will have our support. The counter-terrorism Bill takes up our proposal to make it possible to interview suspects after they have been charged. We think that that is important and we welcome it. We will press the Government to go...

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

David Cameron: I thank the Prime Minister for his statement, and I very much agree with what he said in praising the police, the security services and the public for what they did to combat those terrorist attacks. This is an area, of course, where we can and will work together. Does the Prime Minister agree with me that the threat we face from terrorism today is of a different order from the threats we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Draft Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2007)

David Cameron: Let us take a look at the areas where we agree. As I have said before, we shall work with the Government on anti-terror legislation to make this country safe from terrorists. I am glad that the Prime Minister has agreed to my proposal for the Privy Council committee to consider the use of intercept evidence. He has also taken up our idea of interviews after charge. He has said again today...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Constitutional Reform (3 Jul 2007)

David Cameron: ...Let me begin by congratulating him on becoming Prime Minister. He has achieved his long-held ambition, and I hope that there will be opportunities for us to work together, not least on the issue of terrorism and the safety of our people. The British system of government and politics needs real and lasting change. The country is too centralised, Parliament is too weak, Ministers do not give...