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Bob Stewart - the Conservative MP and former army officer - has told 5 live Daily that torture is "sometimes" justified. Following comments about torture made by Donald Trump, he told Emma Barnett: "We don't like torture. No one likes torture. Not even Trump likes torture. But the fact of the matter is...sometimes it might work, and sometimes it might be justified." He continued: "I don't agree with waterboarding, but a certain amount of persuasion might be justified if someone for example had the knowledge about where a nuclear weapon that was going to explode in London was. That is where I suggest that people might say a certain amount of persuasion could be justified. He also said that, based on modern definitions, he himself was "technically.... a kind of torturer" in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. This clip is originally from 5 live Daily on Thursday 26 January 2017
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