Crispin Blunt

There are some times when something is proposed which becomes personal to you and you realize the Government is about to do…

— Crispin Blunt

There is a tendency for the British establishment to work out everything very carefully and then present it to parliament as 'a…

— Crispin Blunt

The Foreign Affairs Committee is first in line to call for the U.K. to take a more active and independent role in…

— Crispin Blunt

Order has been sustained in Egypt over at least the last three decades by police conduct which bears more hallmarks of Egypt's…

— Crispin Blunt

A national Libyan force needs to be created.

— Crispin Blunt

The committee accepts that, as the government response suggests, U.K. policy in Libya was initially driven by a desire to protect civilians.…

— Crispin Blunt

I am a unionist. But I'm a unionist up to the point of, if other people don't want to be in a…

— Crispin Blunt

Nigel Farage said he would do a deal with the devil to get Brexit over the line; the Conservative party is very…

— Crispin Blunt

I accept of course we're in deep trouble and deep difficulty. But if we, under a new leader, reinvent ourselves properly as…

— Crispin Blunt

The cyber security strategy for the United Kingdom is a master of the formulaic jargon we have come to associate with the…

— Crispin Blunt

Having western, Russian or Iranian forces providing the ground defeat of Isis would certainly work militarily, but would be the least attractive…

— Crispin Blunt

Huwaei receives significant funding from the Chinese government and is run by a former director of the telecoms research unit of the…

— Crispin Blunt

It's not going to be my political raison d'etre, I think it would be presumptuous to take a leadership role. But I…

— Crispin Blunt

After a proposal made by us, Saudi Arabia has had a major government reshuffle. Ibrahim al-Assaf has replaced Adel al-Jubeir as foreign…

— Crispin Blunt

Development of a framework for the reporting of cyber incidents between government and industry is considered a priority. This includes the government…

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Is there an alternate role for the U.K. outside the E.U? I think absolutely there is. It shouldn't be something we should…

— Crispin Blunt

For all those who seek to maintain the rules-based international order, Russia presents a challenge.

— Crispin Blunt

I accept that speculation, cheerful or otherwise, about the private life is something public figures must expect, but I am lucky enough…

— Crispin Blunt

Disentangling this mess of foreign national interests is a necessary precondition to ensuring that there will be a future for Syria that…

— Crispin Blunt

Theresa May's triumph at being the first foreign leader to visit Donald Trump, when she addressed the Republican caucus and advised that…

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In view of the mess left behind by the French and ourselves, we cannot simply leave Libya alone.

— Crispin Blunt

It is my view there is a gaping hole in parliamentary oversight.

— Crispin Blunt

Eighty per cent of the membership of the Conservative Party are very keen to make sure that Brexit happens, we'll be in…

— Crispin Blunt

Our lack of understanding of the institutional capacity of the country stymied Libya's progress in establishing security on the ground and absorbing…

— Crispin Blunt

The government is sending some terrible signs about what we really stand for.

— Crispin Blunt