EU Council, Security and Middle East

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 3:45 pm on 1 September 2014.

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Photo of Pat McFadden Pat McFadden Labour, Wolverhampton South East 3:45, 1 September 2014

The decision to water down control orders was the wrong policy taken for the wrong reasons, and I welcome the Prime Minister’s at least partial U-turn today on the relocation element.

On the international dimension, it is right to learn the lessons from the past, but it is wrong to be imprisoned by the past, particularly by the decision on the Iraq war or last year’s decision on military intervention in Syria. In the light of what has happened in recent months, will the Prime Minister consider seeking a new mandate from Parliament which begins not by ruling options out or by looking over our shoulders, but by exercising leadership and confronting the threat we face here and now?