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HANSARDCovid-19Proving the point that show is always better than tell, my hon. Friend is exactly right. We have to not just hold the Government to account on the issues of the day but have…22 Feb 2021HANSARDIntegrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign PolicyPoliticians have never really come to terms fully with globalisation. Perhaps it is the inevitable loss of sovereignty that provides the reticence, but it is a reality. We live in…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Trade BillI wish to make only three brief points. First, the House of Commons is the appropriate place to scrutinise the elected Government’s independent trade policy. That is why I am…09 Feb 2021HANSARD Treatment of Uyghur Women: Xinjiang Detention CampsI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wealden (Ms Ghani) on securing the urgent question today. It is right to shine a light on the vile atrocities being carried out in…04 Feb 2021HANSARDUnsafe Cladding: Protecting Tenants and LeaseholdersI welcome the Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall North (Eddie Hughes), to the Dispatch Box. I always…01 Feb 2021HANSARDHolocaust Memorial Day 2021For many of us, as we contemplate the inhumanity, brutality and sheer scale of the holocaust, one uncomfortable question sits in our minds: how could ordinary people like…28 Jan 2021HANSARD Russian Federation: Human RightsThirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian regime murders its opponents abroad. It poisons its challengers at home. It still has armed forces on the sovereign…27 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillI want to say at the outset that I completely agree with the need to set ethical frameworks in all our overseas dealings, including trade. In so far as these amendments deal with…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillI will not—my hon. Friend will forgive me—given the constrictions on time. It would have been possible to create a system that allowed us to do that. The House would have been…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillOkay, I will give way to my hon. Friend. She has charmed me into it.19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillMy hon. Friend should ask the Government; I am not the Government. My view is that we want to ensure that the powers are exercised exclusively by Parliament. I do not want any…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Trade BillBecause I believe that the high court of Parliament is the appropriate place to do that. Parliament can apply sanctions where it believes they are justified. Our new legislation…19 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19When a friend of mine in Switzerland called this morning to say that the covid debate in the UK had become extremely polarised, it made me think about the need for rationality and…12 Jan 2021HANSARD Economic UpdateGiven the state of public finances, and as we look to the post-covid recovery, will my right hon. Friend resist any calls, in his forthcoming Budget, for increases in public…11 Jan 2021HANSARD Global BritainNaturally, I am glad that we have finally left the European Union in all its manifestations, which I always believed was an unnatural berth for a United Kingdom that was…11 Jan 2021HANSARD Public HealthMay I begin by acknowledging the difficulty of the task faced by Health Ministers and the Prime Minister in this crisis? We have a proportion of the public who want a full…06 Jan 2021HANSARDCovid-19May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on getting a world-leading vaccine strategy going? Clearly, its success will depend on the availability of both the vaccine and the number…06 Jan 2021HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillI will not, I am afraid. The first element is the concept of non-regression as a means of ensuring minimum standards. We accept that the maintenance of those high standards has…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and not only are they effective mechanisms, but they keep us in line with the best international practice that exists, which of course…30 Dec 2020HANSARD European Union (Future Relationship) BillThose of us who voted and campaigned to leave the European Union did so for a number of reasons. I was always a constitutional leaver. For me, the test of this Bill is: does it…30 Dec 2020