Crispin Blunt

In 2013 I voted against military intervention in Syria.

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Unity among like-minded liberal democracies is paramount.

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The public don't want prisoners lying about being idle.

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There is not a shortage of assets in northern Syria but a shortage of targets.

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King Abdullah gives a level of insight that we don't get from our own governments.

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Trump has shown that there are limits to how brutal the maximalists can afford to be.

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A national Libyan force needs to be created.

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

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Large numbers have been punished on the basis of a broad and vague definition of terrorism and a worryingly low threshold of…

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Doing something to make ourselves feel better is beside the real point of defeating Isis and ending the Syrian civil war.

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

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Our unique selling point as a country is global, not regional. Our industries have a pitch to the world, rather than simply…

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The creeping optimism that there might be a route to peace in Syria remains constrained by the elephant in the room -…

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

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

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

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In 2008, Damian Green, then shadow immigration minister, had his parliamentary office raided without a warrant, by the Metropolitan police, after he…

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The aim has got to be to maximize the opportunities for prisoners, having got themselves clean and got themselves some training, to…

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The 2013 deal, whereby the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons verified the destruction of 95% of Syria's declared chemical weapons,…

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Any initiative involving the green beret - as opposed to special forces - to expand and train a national Libyan military capacity…

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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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We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites…

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

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I have known Damian Green for over 20 years, since we were elected together in 1997. He stands out among us with…

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London Pride is a big event in the global celebration of freedom.

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I do have a huge debt of gratitude to people who fought for equality.

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

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We don't comment on special forces operations. And if you run an operation for a long time as we have here, and…

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U.K. policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of…

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I strongly believe that we would be amiss to cut ourselves off from Saudi Arabia without expending every effort to avert disaster.

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Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.

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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…

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There is a growing body of opinion in support of a royal commission. It's not an issue which will go away, because…

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It always had occurred to me that drugs misuse was obviously a major driver of demand in the criminal justice system.

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Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

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

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

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In truth the importance of U.K. airstrikes and the U.K.'s eight additional planes is more political than military. It is in honesty…

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

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The requirement for military force is clear when looking at the first of the nine points agreed in Vienna, which states that…

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