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HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementThe Minister was one of the most ardent remainers that this House produced, yet he is proposing a trade deal that would not have been possible if he had had his way; I am sure the…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementWhat the hon. Member has not mentioned is that it took the EU 20 years to get a deal with India. It took the United Kingdom three.09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI will deal with the fact that the EU just signed one. As I said in an intervention, I was a Member of the European Parliament when Peter Mandelson was a Trade Minister, and I…09 Feb 2026HANSARDJimmy Lai: Prison SentenceStrong words of condemnation are appropriate and necessary, but when will the Government’s actions match those words of condemnation?09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementIt is not Brexit but the Windsor framework. We did not have a Brexit, and that is what causes the Irish sea border. There is this fantasy that Northern Ireland is in some special…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementWill the hon. Gentleman give way?09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeMay I take the House back to where this debate started? It began with the shadow spokesman, the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston (Neil O'Brien), reminding us that…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementNo, it most certainly would not. In modern times, there is abundant opportunity to develop a scheme, with the assistance of modern technology, that would allow for mutual…09 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonThere is an old proverb—it might be of Russian extraction, which would be fitting enough—that says, “Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are.” Doesn’t that sum…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonThat was the point I was coming to. Sadly, the European Union being the European Union, it had no great interest in investigating those matters; they were rather swept under the…04 Feb 2026HANSARDDraft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026This is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is one of those parts of the United Kingdom that, far in excess of elsewhere, depends on…03 Feb 2026HANSARDDraft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026The Minister is telling the Committee that parity with the Republic of Ireland is more important to him than parity with the rest of the United Kingdom. Really?03 Feb 2026HANSARDDraft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026No votes—probably. That is probably the same answer in respect of the whole of Northern Ireland. When the Minister gets a chance to listen, I say to him: I do not accept lesser…03 Feb 2026HANSARDDraft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 202603 Feb 2026HANSARDChina and JapanI certainly acknowledge the tariff easement for Scottish whisky, and for the apparently superior Bushmills whiskey from my constituency, but will the Prime Minister’s visit do…02 Feb 2026HANSARD Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction BillAs I understand it, the BBNJ deals primarily with matters in international waters, and of course the devolved institutions have no say in those matters. So as to broaden our…02 Feb 2026HANSARDEngagementsThis week marks two years from the attempted great deception on the part of the former Government and the Democratic Unionist party that the Irish sea border was gone. “No checks,…28 Jan 2026HANSARDBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryWill the right hon. Lady agree that we stand at a critical point for not just this nation but the United States of America, and that it too should have regard to the fact that up…28 Jan 2026HANSARDDraft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026I will make some general points and then ask a Northern Ireland-specific question of the Minister. I really am amazed that in a debate where the starting point is that free…27 Jan 2026HANSARDUK Bus ManufacturingIndeed, and the Chancellor is on record as saying that “where things are made, and who makes them, matters.” —[ Official Report , 11 June 2025; Vol. 768, c. 979.] That is correct,…27 Jan 2026