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Jeremy Corbyn came under fire from the Conservatives this week after a landmark speech about the war on terror.

The Labour leader said said we "must be brave enough" to admit the war on terror has failed in the wake of the Manchester suicide bombing.

He said: "Many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services, have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries, such as Libya, and terrorism here at home."

The full force of the Tory government was dispatched to attack Corbyn afterwards.

Prime Minister Theresa May said: " Jeremy Corbyn has said that terror attacks in Britain are our own fault - and he has chosen to do that just a few days after one of the worst terrorist atrocities we have experienced in the United Kingdom."

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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called Corbyn's comments "monstrous" and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon went on the attack on Channel 4 News , but ended up making an enormous on-air gaffe.

But there have been plenty of times when senior Tories, including David Cameron and Boris himself, said pretty much exactly the same thing as Corbyn - that the war on terror has increased the risk of terrorism.

Here, we take a look as some of the most high-profile examples...

David Cameron

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When he was leader of the opposition in 2006, Mr Cameron endorsed a report by a Conservative policy group on security issues.

It concluded: "We need to recognise that a central element of foreign policy - the intervention in Iraq - has failed in its objectives so badly that the threat to this country is actually greater than it was before it began."

Boris Johnson

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Boris wrote in an article in 2005 - just one week after the 7/7 bombings: "The Iraq war did not create the problem of murderous Islamic fundamentalists, though the war has unquestionably sharpened the resentments felt by such people in this country and given them a new pretext."

But he has now changed his tune, saying yesterday after Corbyn's speech: "Now is not the time to do anything to subtract from the fundamental responsibility of those individuals, that individual in particular, who committed this atrocity.

"And I think it is absolutely monstrous that anybody should seek to do so.”

Michael Portillo

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The former Thatcher minister said on the latest episode of This Week opposite Andrew Neil: "I would, if I was still defence secretary, need an awful lot of convincing we should go back into Afghanistan.

"It's not clear to me these interventions we have made in predominantly Muslim countries have done more to suppress terrorism than they have to arouse disgruntlement."

Ken Clarke

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Mr Clarke, a long-standing opponent of the invasion of Iraq, said in a speech in 2005: "The war did not create the danger of Islamic terrorism in this country, which had been growing internationally even before the tragedy of the attacks on 9/11.

"However, the decision by the UK government to become the leading ally of President Bush in the Iraq debacle has made Britain one of the foremost targets for Islamic extremists."

David Davis

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The man put in charge of leading our negotiations to exit the EU has also drawn a link between the Iraq invasion and terror in the West.

He said in a speech last summer: "People feel very strongly about this, that Parliament was essentially misled into a war which led to terrible consequences both for people in Iraq and the Middle East and indeed back in the West, as well with heightened risk of terrorism."

Andrew Tyrie

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Once described as the most powerful backbencher in the House of Commons, Mr Tyrie slammed British foreign policy during the 2013 debate in Parliament over air strikes in Syria.

He said: "The result of over a decade of intervention in the Middle East has been not the creation of a regional order more attuned to Western values and interests, but the destruction of an existing order of dictatorships that, however odious, was at least effective in suppressing the sectarian conflicts and resulting terrorism that have taken root in the Middle East.

"Regime change in Iraq brought anarchy and terrible suffering. It has also made us less safe. Above all, it has created the conditions for the growth of militant extremism."