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Debate between Steve Yemm and Yvette Cooper
Monday 21st October 2024

(1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Yemm Portrait Steve  Yemm  (Mansfield) (Lab)
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T9.   I have listened in absolute amazement to the outrage from Opposition Members about the careful consideration of security for Taylor Swift’s concerts in London, a week after her Vienna tour was cancelled due to a terror plot. Does the Home Secretary think that is cynical opportunism from Conservative Members, or have they lost all sense of reason?

Yvette Cooper Portrait Yvette Cooper
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I think it is a matter for us all to take the security of people immensely seriously, and to ensure that terrorist, extremist and criminal threats do not win in their attempt to pose threats not just to life, but to our way of life.