Brexit: Crime Prevention Debate

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Department: Home Office

Brexit: Crime Prevention

Lord Tebbit Excerpts
Thursday 30th March 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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The noble Lord is quite wrong. The letter says that both sides would cope, but our co-operation would be weakened. We want, and we believe that the EU wants, security to be part of the new partnership. That is why it will be part of the negotiation. That is the right way forward.

Lord Tebbit Portrait Lord Tebbit (Con)
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My Lords, does my noble friend realise that the appropriate reply to the noble Lord, Lord Kinnock, lies in The Gospel According to St Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21?

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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Perhaps the right reverend Prelate would like to comment.