Murder of PC Ronan Kerr
Debate between Owen Paterson and Tom Brake(13 years, 7 months ago)
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Mr Paterson
I wholeheartedly concur with the hon. Lady’s comments. Her party has a proud record of pursuing its political ambitions by democratic means through the most difficult times. She asked about the security services. I shall repeat the comments of Lord Carlile, who is an independent assessor of these matters:
“MI5 and the PSNI are working very closely together and one really could not have more work being done and more energetically to try and deal with what is a very difficult threat”.
Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington) (LD)
Will the Secretary of State join me in commending Nuala Kerr for the conspicuous and formidable moral leadership she has shown since the callous and senseless murder of her son, and in urging all politicians to demonstrate the same conspicuous and formidable moral leadership in dealing with the terrorists who murdered her son?
Mr Paterson
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that strong comment. I entirely concur with what he said about Mrs Kerr, and I remind everyone of what she said yesterday.
“We all need to stand up and be counted and to strive for equality…We don’t want to go back into the dark days again of fear and terror.”