Member

The previous Opposition’s view on these matters has been mentioned. I was on an enforced sabbatical between 2019 and 2024. I was not the Home Office spokesman in either House of Parliament. We have now taken a judgment on what we should do, and we are not going to give a running commentary on proscription. If we say that we are going to proscribe an organisation, whether the IRGC or anything else, we will give it notice that we are going to do that; if we say that we are not going to proscribe an organisation, we leave a potential view as to why not, and we will then potentially have to talk about things that we do not want to talk about in a public forum, such as the House of Commons and the House of Lords.