Terrorist Attack: Nice Debate

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Department: Home Office

Terrorist Attack: Nice

Keith Vaz Excerpts
Monday 18th July 2016

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I thank my right hon. Friend for making that important point so eloquently, as is often the case. He is absolutely right to say that we need to make that distinction, and I say once more that it is for all faiths and all people to unite together to make sure we condemn this dreadful terrorism.

Keith Vaz Portrait Keith Vaz (Leicester East) (Lab)
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I warmly welcome the Home Secretary to her new position and remind her that her predecessor had a career-enhancing 20 appearances before the Select Committee during her time in office—I hope she will continue with that engagement in her new office. Reports have emerged from France, from Bernard Cazeneuve and Manuel Valls, that the perpetrator of this atrocity had been radicalised very quickly by the internet. Does the Home Secretary agree that whatever the truth of this as it emerges, the internet remains a key battleground in our fight against terrorism? Will she do all she can to work with Europol and Interpol to make the internet companies do more to take down those subversive videos?