We stand absolutely united with the French people against terrorism and against this threat to our values – free speech, the rule of law, democracy. Its absolutely essential we defend those values today and every day. There is no one single answer to these appalling terrorist attacks. We have to all be vigilant. We have to try to address all the problems of radicalisation that have happened in our country. But as we do all these things, we must be very clear about one thing, which is we should never give up the values that we believe in and defend as part of our democracy and civilisation and believing in a free press, in freedom of expression, in the right of people to write and say what they believe. These are the things we are defending. We should be very clear on this day that these values that we have are not sources of weakness for us, they are sources of strength.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:47:30 +0000
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