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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she intends to use seized Russian assets frozen under sanctions for the benef

I hesitate to distract the Minister from his theatrical memories—he is doing very well—but I would like to take him back to the Bill for a s

You’re a young man.

I rise to speak in this debate because I have had a long interest in Northern Ireland. I served in Northern Ireland in 1975.

I understand that.

I tried to raise this point with the Leader of the Opposition and I pose it to anybody: what do people want?

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I apologise, but I want to develop this point.

If the hon.

I served in Northern Ireland, and I do not feel in any degree that there was equivalence between what I was doing and what terrorists were d