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HANSARDSomalia: HungerI warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s much overdue return to the Front Bench. His return is to the Government’s advantage but also to the advantage of millions of men, women and…08 Nov 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismMy hon. Friend is exactly right. Our friends and neighbours in the US and Europe are taking action, and we must not be left behind. If we do not act, we will let dangerous people…17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismWill the Minister give way?17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismOf course we do not want to get in the way of the Ministry of Justice, but the key issue is speed. If the Minister can, not necessarily today—I know Cabinet committees need to…17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismThe hon. Member is exactly right. There are a variety of other mechanisms that we could use. We could give judges the right to strike down egregious cases early. We could even…17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismBriefly, because I have only seconds left.17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismI thank the right hon. Lady for drawing the attention of the House to that case. I do not know the substance of it, but the fact is that these cases are best resolved…17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismI will come back to that very point in a moment, but as the hon. Gentleman implies, defending oneself against a libel claim, especially by an oligarch or other wealthy person, is…17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismFirst, the lawyers clearly do not understand parliamentary privilege. Secondly, what they are doing—I will come back to this in a second—is trying to repress free speech and…17 Oct 2022HANSARDLawfare and Investigative JournalismOn 20 January, a number of us MPs initiated a debate on the use of lawfare by oligarchs and undemocratic states that seek to suppress free speech and scrutiny of their activity.…17 Oct 2022HANSARD Jagtar Singh JohalI associate myself with every word uttered by the hon. Member for West Dunbartonshire (Martin Docherty-Hughes). Let us be clear: we cannot talk about the case, but the allegation…07 Sept 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. After the second world war, the biggest moral defeat visited on Soviet Russia was the creation of a successful, democratic, capitalist free state in West Germany. It cost…06 Sept 2022HANSARDSmall Boat Crossings7. What steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of people crossing the English channel in small boats.05 Sept 2022HANSARDSmall Boat CrossingsIn view of the uncertainty as to who will fill the Government Front Bench in the coming days and weeks, I will break the rules a bit by asking the Home Secretary to accept my…05 Sept 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillThat is exactly what the Minister said earlier and, indeed, said to me yesterday when we spoke about this issue. I do not deny that, but this line of argument ignores the…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI join everybody else in welcoming the Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins), to the…12 Jul 2022HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. We now have a caretaker Government who have given themselves a self-denying ordinance not to do anything controversial or change policy in any…12 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI would like to draw the Prime Minister’s attention to the words he used in response to the earlier question from my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim…06 Jul 2022HANSARD Post Office: Compensation for Horizon ScandalI have watched many Ministers do a good job at the Dispatch Box, but it takes a very special Minister to take an issue such as this to heart and really make it move, as this…30 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe laws around IR35 are loosely defined, and it looks as though Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs is using the tribunals and courts to pin down the case law on it. The effect is…28 Jun 2022