Contributions
1,070 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI thank my hon. Friend for being such an involved constituency Member and for being so responsive over the Christmas period. A number of every active MPs are sitting behind me.…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsAs the right hon. Gentleman is well aware, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office is still functioning here in the UK. We are keeping a close watch on the situation, and we keep…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI will not be tempted down the particular track that the hon. Member has invited me to go down, involving oligarchs and so forth, but what I will say is that we live in a very…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsThe hon. Member asks a very important question. There is a three-legged approach in good foreign policy, with national security first, human rights as our duty, and an eye to our…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI do not think the hon. and learned Member intended a pun with “united front”. Taking his point very seriously, I think we could be doing more, and if he could write to me with…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsWe have been relentless in pushing back on the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong. When meeting civil society organisations in Hong Kong in November, I reassured people there of the…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsThis urgent question is about Hong Kong, but I think it is very important that when international courts make decisions—be that on the United Nations convention on the law of the…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI have the pleasure of walking in Richmond Park, which is a lovely thing to do, and I thank the hon. Member for her concern for her constituents. The scheme was designed by the…07 Jan 2025HANSARD Pro-democracy Campaigners: ArrestsI fully accept that, as a sanctioned MP, the right hon. Gentleman is very concerned. I respect and admire his doggedness in raising these issues in the House. I hope he will reply…07 Jan 2025HANSARD International Human Rights DayI thank my hon. Friend for mentioning Yasin Malik, whose situation the FCDO is actively monitoring. I know that she is aware of that, because she is a regular correspondent with…10 Dec 2024HANSARD International Human Rights DayMay I say how appropriate it is for you to be chairing the debate, Madam Deputy Speaker, as you have been such a champion for women since you came into the House, and when you…10 Dec 2024HANSARD International Human Rights DayI thank my hon. Friend for his important point and for the work that he is doing to represent his constituents, such as, for example, going to Downing Street with a petition.…10 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraineAs the hon. Member is aware, Ukraine’s place is in NATO; it has said so itself. He supports that principle. Allies agreed in Washington on 10 July that Ukraine is on an…03 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraineAs my hon. Friend might have gathered, it is from a position of weakness that those countries are being relied on to shore up support. That is why it is so important that we look…03 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraineThe key words are “respecting borders”, and that is where the neocolonial philosophy of President Putin, as he laid out originally in that seminal essay before the war, shows how…03 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraineOf course. That is why we have supported Ukraine as it has made the case for wanting to be in NATO and as it has made the case for being as close as possible to friends in Europe.…03 Dec 2024HANSARDGeorgiaI thank the hon. Member for his question and for his general interest in foreign policy matters in this House. He will be aware that the Minister for Europe, North America and the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraineI thank my hon. Friend, the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee—we have a good showing of Select Committee Chairs in the House today. I reassure her that the UK has imposed…03 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraineI thank my hon. and gallant Friend for his service to the UK and for his intimate knowledge of what it actually means to be at war, and therefore to talk about deterrence. I am…03 Dec 2024HANSARDUkraineThe UK’s support for Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression is ironclad. In July this year, the Government committed to provide Ukraine with £3 billion of military…03 Dec 2024