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Terror linked to wars abroad, Corbyn to say

As election campaigning resumes following the Manchester attack, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to speak about terrorism in the UK and its links to conflict abroad. Discussing labour’s foreign policy stance, the North Islington MP is due to explain why a Labour government would coordinate foreign policy so that it ‘reduces rather than increases the threat’ to the UK, as current policy means that the ‘war on terror is simply not working’. Corbyn, who opposed UK military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, and voted against strikes in Libya and Syria, will argue that it is the government’s responsibility to ‘minimise’ the chance of a terrorist attack. However, his expected address has received criticism from Conservative Security Minister Ben Wallace, who, speaking on the BBC, said his comments were ‘inappropriate and crassly timed’, and said that, even so, terrorist ‘hate our values, not our foreign policy’. This assessment was also held by former Labour Home Secretary Charles Clarke, who told BBC Two's Newsnight that radicals were not concerned with the UK's foreign policy but was instead interested in ‘the destruction of all the core elements of our society’.

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