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Triggering a drone strike — and Brexit

A former attorney general reflects on matters of life and death

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jan 15, 2021
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The former attorney general Jeremy Wright MP has been talking about his decision to authorise the killing of a British terrorist in Syria in 2015. “When you… sit there having to consider that decision,” he said, “you know that you are what stands between this individual and a missile.”

Reyaad Khan, 21, from Cardiff, was killed by a remotely piloted RAF a…

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