Reading Terrorist Attack Debate

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Department: Home Office

Reading Terrorist Attack

Jerome Mayhew Excerpts
Monday 22nd June 2020

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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A great deal of work is taking place on the particular issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised. I am very happy, in the interests of time, to write to him and outline more on that.

Jerome Mayhew Portrait Jerome Mayhew (Broadland) (Con)
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While the police and security services continue in their vital work to track down and prevent lone actors tempted to carry out an attack, does my right hon. Friend agree that there is no community in the UK that even tacitly condones an outrage such this—that the perpetrators are typically loners and misfits who are mentally unstable and socially inadequate, and in no way representative of any community view?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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My hon. Friend makes important points. He is right that these individuals do not represent any community or community group.