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HANSARD Global BritainI very much agree, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point. The Foreign Affairs Committee covered China’s role in universities in this country, but we need an understanding…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Global BritainAbsolutely. In my very brief time at Sandhurst, I saw people who were there from foreign powers. That is a very important form of soft influence, along with our universities and…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Global BritainIt is a matter of time. I thank my hon. Friend. There has been much talk about global Britain, and last year I and others published “Global Britain: A Twenty-First Century…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Global BritainIt is a pleasure, as ever, to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham), and I will be following up on some of his points. [ Interruption. ] Is he…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Global BritainI want to make a point about pay and conditions. We produced a “Global Britain” study last year, and one of the things that surprised me is that ambassadors do not always have…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Global BritainI very much respect what my hon. Friend says. I am just nervous about this, “Oh, we’re terribly unimportant nowadays” argument. We are not a superpower and have not been since the…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Global BritainI look forward to debating this fully, especially when I am no longer a PPS. I think there are justifiable questions, and we need collectively to think very carefully about this…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Global BritainThe hon. Gentleman is talking about dumping. Where does he believe that the high-tech sector and Huawei fit into that, given the soft subsidies provided by China to help the…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Global BritainMay I follow up the point that my right hon. Friend has just made, very eloquently? CANZUK—consisting of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and ourselves—has the potential to play a…30 Jan 2020HANSARD Middle East Peace PlanWhether one likes it or not, this plan recognises the new realities, which are that the Palestinians have fewer and fewer friends and that every time there is something with the…30 Jan 2020HANSARD UK TelecommunicationsI welcome much of the telecoms review, and I thank my right hon. Friend for the manner in which he is speaking now, but I still think that Members in all parts of the House will…28 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS Funding BillI have spoken at length in this Chamber before about the prospects of an Island deal on the Isle of Wight, and I was delighted when on 25 September last year the Prime Minister…27 Jan 2020HANSARD5G Network and HuaweiWhy is it argued that we can limit Huawei to the periphery of the network, when Australia and the United States do not agree and when the head of Australia’s cyber-agency says…27 Jan 2020HANSARDGlobal Free TradeGraham Harvey is a constituent of mine who runs an excellent little composites business on the Isle of Wight. He has just won a big order to sell to Taiwan. That is exactly the…23 Jan 2020HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI congratulate the Government on an excellent start—it is great to see the Leader of the House and the Chief Whip. The reason I am trying to sound ingratiating is that I have a…23 Jan 2020HANSARDGrenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 1 Reportrose —21 Jan 2020HANSARDGrenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 1 ReportIt seems to me that ACM cladding, which my right hon. Friend addressed earlier, goes to the heart of the matter. How many high-rise buildings with unsafe ACM cladding have been…21 Jan 2020HANSARD Joint Comprehensive Plan Of ActionIt seems that the JCPOA in its current form is dying, although it is not dead yet, and I compliment the Foreign Secretary and his Ministers for the work that they are doing. Is…14 Jan 2020HANSARD IranFollowing up on the point made by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), who is no longer in his place, is there a case for the Foreign Office to do some useful…13 Jan 2020HANSARDBritain in the WorldI know that we have said this before, but will my hon. Friend pay tribute to the work of James Le Mesurier, the western head of the White Helmets, who died recently? James was an…13 Jan 2020