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HANSARDMiddle EastMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Good governance means doing the things he describes. If Hamas aspires to run its territory as a good Government, it must address the concerns…14 May 2019HANSARDMiddle EastI thank my hon. Friend for his question. He is right that we need to be fair and equitable, and nowhere more so than in the middle east. I point to the postponed demolition of…14 May 2019HANSARDMiddle EastI thank the hon. Gentleman for the question, but I am certainly not going to speculate on the matter he raises. Apropos the Foreign Secretary’s remarks a few moments ago, we are…14 May 2019HANSARDMiddle EastThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. I strongly urge Hamas to desist from its activities. There is no way we can proceed towards a two-state solution until we have…14 May 2019HANSARDHezbollahWe need to understand what is happening in Syria and the fact that so many proxies of one sort or another are active and engaged in it—it is a maelstrom of such activity, and we…14 May 2019HANSARDHezbollahThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. Hezbollah is a force for evil in our world today, which is why we have taken the strong action we have against it.14 May 2019HANSARDHezbollahI hope the hon. Lady will understand that it is most definitely being taken seriously. Hezbollah is a clear and present danger: it destabilises the region and also offers…14 May 2019HANSARDHezbollahI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her comments. We have proscribed Hezbollah, so it will not be able to demonstrate and spread its message of hate, contrary to the interests and…14 May 2019HANSARDHezbollahI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his generous words, and I share his concerns about this matter. We condemn Hezbollah—we could not be clearer than that—and have gone…14 May 2019HANSARDHezbollahThe UK remains deeply concerned about Hezbollah’s actions and behaviour in the region. As the Home Secretary outlined in February, Hezbollah’s destabilising role in the middle…14 May 2019HANSARDOman: Shihuh TribeI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. This Government take their obligations in respect of human rights extremely seriously. When speaking to our friends and allies, we make this…14 May 2019HANSARDOman: Shihuh TribeThe Government are aware of the concern surrounding the imprisonment of members of the Shihuh tribe in Oman. Her Majesty’s ambassador has raised this with the Omani Ministry of…14 May 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Political ProcessI very much welcome the resumption of the talks, but of course not the tragic circumstances that have led to them. This morning, my Select Committee took evidence in Belfast on…29 Apr 2019HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Agriculture)Does my right hon. Friend agree that the importance of seed potatoes in respect of Northern Ireland and Brexit is because of the possibility of no deal? In that case, growers in…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland ExecutiveI suspect that the right hon. Gentleman has his own views on the sincerity of the party to which he refers, but the preoccupation of the Secretary of State is the good governance…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland ExecutiveI share the weariness of the hon. Member for Ealing North (Stephen Pound) about our continuing necessity to debate Northern Ireland business on the Floor of the House, and I hope…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland ExecutiveThat’s as may be, but the hon. Gentleman will have gathered from my preamble that I am interested in ministerial decision making, and I rather suspect that very few decisions…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland ExecutiveI do not disagree with anything that the right hon. Gentleman has said, but he himself said that when the institutions collapsed, he pointed out to the late Martin McGuinness how…23 Apr 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland: Murder of Lyra McKeeThe Viacom channel MTV appears to have been central to this awful tragedy, through no fault of its own. What can be done to ensure that media operators that, quite legitimately,…23 Apr 2019HANSARD European CouncilThe Government, Leo Varadkar, Michel Barnier and Angela Merkel have all said that there will be no hard border even in the event of no deal. So can we now put the idea of a…11 Apr 2019