Priorities for Government Debate

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Priorities for Government

Wes Streeting Excerpts
Thursday 25th July 2019

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I certainly will. I thank my hon. Friend for his question.

Wes Streeting Portrait Wes Streeting (Ilford North) (Lab)
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The Prime Minister’s carelessness and lack of attention to detail aided and abetted the Iranian regime in locking up a British citizen. I ask the Prime Minister to put right what he did so wrong, and take personal responsibility for ensuring the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Of course, we work very hard to secure the release of Nazanin and all dual nationals who are held, in my view unfairly and illegally, by the Iranian regime. It is time that an innocent woman was released.