§We need to mourn the dead; and then act to protect the living§

- Statement by the Prime Minister

[14 September 2001]



Prime Minister§s statement to the House of Commons, 14 September 2001



Mr. Speaker, I am grateful that you agreed to the recall of Parliament to debate the hideous and foul events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that took place on Tuesday 11 September.



I thought it particularly important in view of the fact that these attacks were not just attacks upon people and buildings; nor even merely upon the USA; these were attacks on the basic democratic values in which we all believe so passionately and on the civilised world. It is therefore right that Parliament, the fount of our own democracy, makes its democratic voice heard.





Tony Blair