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HANSARDJammu and KashmirThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. I want to thank my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams) for securing it, and my hon.…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK Soft PowerI thank the Minister for that answer. While a conference is important, it is hardly an answer to the question of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. There are no official answers and…26 Feb 2019HANSARDUK Soft PowerWe are discussing soft power. I want to ask the Minister about an issue where the exercising of that power is growing long overdue. When we gather for the next Foreign Office…26 Feb 2019HANSARDCounter-Daesh UpdateMay I say that our first thoughts are with the members of our armed forces who are involved in the campaign against Daesh and who every day put their lives on the line in the…11 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsFlattered though I am that the Minister feels it necessary to ask me questions, it is important to make it clear that the reason that I have asked these questions today is that…06 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker. I am so glad to renew my acquaintance with the Minister for the Cabinet Office, or, as the newspapers always call him, “effectively the Deputy Prime…06 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Minister for his answer. I take from that and from other briefings that the time for a fresh vote will be after the Prime Minister has secured what she called last…06 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsAgain, I thank the Minister. Does the Prime Minister seriously think that she will get anything different from the responses that we have heard from the EU over recent days? None…06 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsCan we go back to the central issue: there is no way that we can avoid a border in Ireland after Brexit without a full customs union, or a permanent backstop, or some new…06 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsIf the right hon. Gentleman would like me to answer questions, I would be quite happy to hold a seminar for him at another stage regarding what a proper Brexit ought to look like,…06 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsI hear what the Minister says, but he does not seem to give us any answers. I genuinely appreciate his attempts, but I hope that he will understand the concern that all of us…06 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsWhere are they?30 Jan 2019HANSARDVenezuelaThank you for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes) for securing it. Last Saturday, I condemned…28 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Diplomatic Co-operationMay I take the Foreign Secretary back to our last debate on Brexit? He gave me an answer that was not exactly convincing, so I thought I would give him another chance. […22 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Diplomatic Co-operationWell, that is not a very convincing answer, is it? It is the same sort of unconvincing answer that we got last time. We always know when Government Ministers are getting a bit…22 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActYes, I have.11 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActThis has been an excellent debate to listen to, even though I have the most astonishing feeling of déjà vu about it. Perhaps it is the flu I have been suffering all week, or the…11 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActThe trouble is that that does not seem to be what the Foreign Secretary said on the radio this morning. I am just holding him to account. He cannot go round telling all sorts of…11 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActWhen we leave the European Union, free movement will end. It is our policy that there should be fair rules and managed migration. We believe that immigration should look after our…11 Jan 2019HANSARD Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq) on securing it, and I thank her on…07 Jan 2019