“I object strongly to the Visiting Forces Act. I see no reason why forces from a foreign power stationed in this country should be exempt from British law. I find it even more offensive that we do not even know what offences they have committed and that all we have is the information collected by Duncan Campbell and others, which has been printed in the New Statesman.”

— Jeremy Corbyn

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1987/apr/08/defence in the House of Commons (8 April 1987).
1980s

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