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PMQs and the
BNTVA/NCCF Joint Statement
On 17 November 2021, Rebecca Long-Bailey MP said the following to Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Questions...
“My constituent Laura told me that Remembrance Sunday hurts. It hurts because there have been no medals for her grandad’s service and the thousands of men involved in nuclear weapons tests overseas between 1952 and 1991.
It hurts because studies of such veterans have shown increased miscarriages, increased birth defects and the same rate of genetic damage as clean-up workers at Chernobyl.
And it hurts because the UK is the only nuclear power on earth that has denied recognition.
So, I ask the Prime Minister:
will he recognise nuclear testing veterans today and agree to meet them? The Leader of the Opposition has.”
The Prime Minister replied,
“I am grateful to the hon. Lady for bringing this to my attention. I will certainly make sure that we get a proper meeting with the representatives of the nuclear veterans that she mentions.”
The BNTVA and NCCF would welcome any such meeting and responded to the Prime Minister as follows...
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