All 1 Ben Everitt contributions to the Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020

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Wed 12th Feb 2020
Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill
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Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill

Ben Everitt Excerpts
2nd reading & 2nd reading: House of Commons
Wednesday 12th February 2020

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Everitt Portrait Ben Everitt (Milton Keynes North) (Con)
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Streatham is a place that is very close to my heart. I lived there for many years and had the privilege of being the chairman of Streatham Conservatives and working closely with community groups and the police. I pay tribute to the professionalism of the police and the community groups. We know that the people of Streatham will be coming together at this dark hour to support each other. The incident on Streatham high road was especially tragic because it came so soon after a similar incident at London bridge.

That brings us to why we are here. We have been put here by our electors with an understanding, which is both explicit and implicit, that we will keep them safe. We have a duty to keep our constituents safe—I have a duty to keep the people of Milton Keynes North safe—and we have the power to act on this matter. It is our duty as public servants and human beings to act. Let us be quite clear: those who have been proven to have committed or to have conspired to commit acts of terrorism are enemies of the Crown. As my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Alicia Kearns) put it, they are traitors, and people expect the full application of the law, of justice and of sentences.