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HMRC (25 Jun 2008) has video

George Osborne: ...NHS records on children were lost at Christmas, a laptop containing the names and passport numbers of 600,000 military recruits was stolen from the boot of a car in January, secret papers on terrorism were left on a train not once, but twice—all capped this month by the revelation that a Cabinet Minister had broken Cabinet rules and left her laptop, which contained sensitive files...

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security (25 Feb 2004)

Mr George Osborne: ...last couple of years? We have had the military operations in Afghanistan, and bin Laden is pinned down wherever he is, but can he give a broader assessment of whether we are winning the war against terror?

Terrorist Attacks (Istanbul) (20 Nov 2003)

Mr George Osborne: ...of support for the Turkish Government. Does the Foreign Secretary agree with the tough message delivered by President Bush in London yesterday? He said that if we were to defeat international terrorism, we must shake off "decades of failed policy" in the middle east when we tolerated oppression in return for stability.

Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)

Mr George Osborne: ...and political opportunities and diminish the lure of fundamentalism. Indeed, only by creating a plural, progressive and economically dynamic Arab world will we deal with the root causes of Islamic terrorism. The final argument used against us is that the action by the US and UK Governments in Iraq dangerously undermined the international institutions on which our collective security...

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Mr George Osborne: ...greatest provocation that any western democracy has experienced in the past 50 years—and that the Americans worked with the international community to build a coalition against international terrorism. They were then were supported by other countries' troops in prosecuting action in Afghanistan. There was no precipitate action against Iraq and there has been no unilateral action of...

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Mr George Osborne: ...Conservative Governments. However, it always makes matters worse to avoid the threat now in the hope that it will go away. There are parallels with the way in which we have dealt with international terrorism during the past 20 or 30 years. A very persuasive book by Alan Dershowitz, one of the United States' leading legal authorities, entitled XWhy Terrorism Works", was published this...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: War on Terrorism (12 Mar 2002)

Mr George Osborne: If it is his policy to support action against countries other than Afghanistan in the campaign against terrorism.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: War on Terrorism (12 Mar 2002)

Mr George Osborne: Who really speaks for the Government on the issue of broadening the campaign against terrorism? Is it the Secretary of State for International Development, who thinks that further military action is not sensible; is it the former Foreign Secretary, who leaks Cabinet discussions to advance his case; is it the current Foreign Secretary, who thinks that the American Administration are...

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill: Clause 109 — Implementation of the third pillar (21 Nov 2001)

Mr George Osborne: .... Cameron) in his cross-examination of the Under-Secretary in the Select Committee on Home Affairs. He asked her whether, as a result of the clause, measures that had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism could be introduced by affirmative resolution in this House rather than in primary legislation. She said, "The answer is yes."

Business of the House (8 Oct 2001)

Mr George Osborne: ...Soviet Union and the prime objective of British foreign policy was to defeat the Soviet Union, and we were prepared to use whatever means we could to achieve that end. Now defeating international terrorism is a prime foreign policy objective, and, as George Bush says, either Governments are with us or they are with the terrorists. Pakistan has not hesitated to support us, so we should...

Business of the House (8 Oct 2001)

Mr George Osborne: ...the one in which we are standing—will we not then be saying that we were extremely neglectful and extremely foolish not to attempt to build such a system? The Government say that the war on terrorism must assume many forms and will take many years. Military action tonight is one of those forms, but developing a ballistic system is another.

International Terrorism (14 Sep 2001)

Mr George Osborne: ...some powerful speeches today, but I should like to single out the speech by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Mahmood) as especially powerful. He reminded us all that the acts of terror committed in the name of Islam have absolutely nothing to do with Islam. I should like to quote an e-mail that I received from a good friend who lives in New York and whose husband works for...