Counter-Daesh Update Debate

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George Howarth

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Counter-Daesh Update

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Point of Order
Wednesday 15th March 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I do not have that information to hand. I will investigate and see whether I can share that information with my hon. Friend.

George Howarth Portrait Mr George Howarth (Knowsley) (Lab)
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I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement unreservedly. Does she agree that in a chronically unstable region, the presence of Daesh serves only to intensify the instability? Does she also agree that the only way to resolve the situation is not only to defeat Daesh militarily, but to defeat the perverted ideology it represents?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The objective has to be to defeat not only Daesh’s military capability on the ground, but everything it stands for—its ideology and the spread of hate and evil it perpetrates.

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