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Lord Bew Excerpts

Monday 9th June 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch (UKIP)]

My Lords—

[Lord Bew (CB)]

My Lords—

[Baroness Morris of Yardley (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon]

My Lords, may we hear from the noble Lord, Lord Bew?

[Lord Bew]

My Lords, the great lesson of Northern Ireland is to combat not just violent acts but also extreme ideologies, communal ideologies and religious ideologies of bigotry. Can the Minister assure us, in the light of the statements of both the Home Secretary and the Education Secretary in the other place this afternoon, that the Government are still united on the basis that it is necessary to combat the ideologies of extremism as well as violent acts?

[Lord Nash]

I can absolutely give the noble Lord that assurance.