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National Security and Russia

Proceeding contribution from Chris Bryant (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 March 2018. It occurred during Debate on National Security and Russia.

I have been thinking about what my hon. Friend says about due diligence and due process, and of course he is right. However, President Putin presumes that we will do everything we can to ensure that there is proper process, a fair trial and so on in this country, but that would not be available to anybody in Russia. We have to face that. Having gone through the whole Litvinenko process when I was a Minister, I know that the worse thing for Marina Litvinenko was that it was impossible to have a proper trial because the Russians

simply would not co-operate. We very slowly ended up with a judicial review and inquiry. We may end up having to do exactly the same thing this time, but we need to walk into this with our eyes wide open.

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Reference

638 c586 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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