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Boris Johnson believes Britain’s wars fuel terrorism
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THAT’S right. The Prime Minister believes that the Iraq war increased the risk of terrorism in Britain.
He is one of several leading Conservatives who have expressed that view — based on the judgement of British intelligence, the police force and the Civil Service.
In July 2005, just days after the July 7 terror attacks that killed 52 people in London, Johnson, then just a back-bench Conservative MP, wrote in the Spectator: “It is difficult to deny that they have a point, the Told-You-So brigade.”
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