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HANSARDEngagementsI pay tribute to the hon. Member for Warrington North (Charlotte Nichols) for her powerful and courageous speech in the debate on jury trials yesterday—I really hope the Prime…11 Mar 2026HANSARDEngagementsMay I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks on Sarah Everard and the need to do far more to tackle violence against women and girls? May I also associate myself with…04 Mar 2026HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Prime Minister for his reply, but I hope he will act if energy bills do go up by £500. Donald Trump’s war on Iran has not only brought more chaos across the middle…04 Mar 2026HANSARDMiddle EastI thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement and for my security briefing. Once again, President Trump has launched a unilateral and unlawful act. Ayatollah…02 Mar 2026HANSARDEngagementsI think we all agree that police investigations should take priority, but that does not rule out a public inquiry, and it certainly does not rule out releasing the flight logs,…25 Feb 2026HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in congratulating Team GB on our most successful winter Olympics ever. I also join him in solidarity with our Ukrainian allies and friends after four…25 Feb 2026HANSARDAndrew Mountbatten-WindsorI beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions to require the Government to lay before this House all…24 Feb 2026HANSARDAndrew Mountbatten-WindsorI am grateful for that intervention. We must build a culture of transparency and accountability; I think that is essential. I hope that we as a House will look at ending the…24 Feb 2026HANSARDAndrew Mountbatten-WindsorI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I think he probably speaks for the whole House. Indeed, the intention of this debate is to bring this House together.…24 Feb 2026HANSARDAndrew Mountbatten-WindsorI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention, which shows not only that we need to focus on the scandals we have heard about, but that even greater questions are raised if the…24 Feb 2026HANSARDAndrew Mountbatten-WindsorI am grateful for both the hon. Gentleman’s Freudian slip and his suggestion that we need to speed up action in this area. Let me begin to conclude. In many ways, this is the…24 Feb 2026HANSARDAndrew Mountbatten-WindsorThe Minister knows that I apologised for making that comment, having taken a brief from someone else. I really wish that I had not uttered those words, because I am thinking about…24 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement. I declare an interest as my son, John, has an EHCP, which is critical to his education and to our whole family’s…23 Feb 2026HANSARDEngagementsMay I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s remarks about the dreadful stabbing of two children in Brent and the horrifying shootings in British Columbia? Our thoughts and…11 Feb 2026HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I think I touched a raw nerve. I think the whole House will agree that the Mandelson scandal has shown yet again why we need a duty of candour for anyone and everyone…11 Feb 2026HANSARDEngagementsMay I thank you, Mr Speaker, and the Prime Minister for your responses to my tribute to Jim Wallace on Monday, and may I urge the whole House to read the wonderful tributes paid…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEngagementsI think the victims of Jeffrey Epstein deserve far better than that; they deserve Peter Mandelson not being appointed in the first place. We do not even know the full extent of…04 Feb 2026HANSARDChina and JapanWith your indulgence, Mr Speaker, I start by paying tribute to my friend Jim Wallace, one of the great Scottish Liberals. I offer our thoughts and prayers to his family and many…02 Feb 2026HANSARDEngagementsWe remember how Tony Blair ignored warnings from these opposition Benches and tied himself to an unpopular American President and a disastrous foreign policy, while close allies…21 Jan 2026HANSARDEngagementsOf course we are not arguing that; we are arguing that the Prime Minister follows France and Canada—our close allies. Here is one thing that we can agree on: that the UK should…21 Jan 2026