Corbyn links United Kingdom foreign policy to terror

Jeremy Corbyn's big gamble – challenging Tories over law, order and security
Manchester attack: 8 held, Labour leader Corbyn says 'war on terror' not working
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28 May, 2017

However, in a column for the Spectator magazine a week after the 7 July, 2005 bombing in London, Mr Johnson argued that the war in Iraq "did not create the problem of murderous Islamic fundamentalists" but had "unquestionably sharpened the resentments felt by such people in this country".

"I voted against the renewal", said Mr Corbyn.

But Burnham told Paul Ross: "I have a different view to Jeremy on this".

"I have moved on in the intervening 34 years but if you want to demonstrate that I am in favour of atrocities and violence and terrorism you're going about it [interrupted].I'm saying that it's 34 years ago, you've moved on from 34 years ago and so have I".

He added: "It's there in the programme, it's there in the manifesto, it will be carried out.it's the position we are adopting as a party and we will take into government".

"It will look at the role of nuclear weapons as it will look at everything", he said.

He said many experts including British intelligence professionals see a connection between wars Britain has supported, such as the one in Libya, and terrorism in Britain.

The following day, before the terrorist attack, Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire put out a press release, dredging up supportive remarks made about Irish republicanism by Mr Corbyn, his finance spokesman John McDonnell and Labour's home affairs spokesman Diane Abbott.

"They are wrong, their view of the world is a corruption and perversion of Islam and it can be completely confounded".

"He seems to be implying that a terrorist attack in Manchester is somehow our fault, it's somehow Britain's fault", he added.

In his speech, Mr Corbyn said the "war on terror is simply not working".

Corbyn earlier said there was a "smarter way to reduce the threat from countries that nurture terrorists and generate terrorism".

Britain's opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn on Friday said the so-called war on terror was "simply not working" and linked British military action overseas with the rising threat of terrorism at home, as he restarted election campaigning days after a suicide bomber killed 22 in Manchester.

And she distanced herself from her comments in a 1984 interview about Northern Ireland, where she said "every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us".

Corbyn's speech marked the party's return to campaigning after a pause it took in the wake of the Manchester attacks. Now is not the time to use this event to attack foreign policy. "We have to make our population secure".

Mr Fallon said Mr Corbyn's words were "very badly timed" and showed his "very muddled and unsafe thinking". "There can be no defence whatsoever of that".

"I think it would be unwise of any government to ignore that", he said. "Surely any sensible person would want to do that".

Theresa May accused Mr Corbyn of making excuses for terrorism in a way which showed he was "not up to the job" of being prime minister.

"I want to work within North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to achieve stability", he said.

"What it does show is that people are reflecting on things and they have a serious choice at the this election, a Government led by Jeremy Corbyn or one led by Theresa May".

"I will be a committed member of that alliance in order to promote peace, justice, human rights and democracy".


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