David Nuttall
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Mr David Nuttall (Bury North) (Con)
Following on from that question, does my right hon. Friend think that our membership of NATO is more important to our national security than our membership of the EU?
The Prime Minister
In my view, NATO is the organisation that has kept us safe since the second world war. It has been a very successful alliance. If we can secure a reform of the European Union we will not have to choose between belonging to NATO and belonging to a reformed European Union; we will be able to belong to both. I can see the advantages of that because we will increasingly see—as we see off the coast of Libya—British ships involved in trying to deal with potential threats to our country as part of European Union work that is also at the same time sanctioned by NATO.