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HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeI will turn to those issues shortly. Everyone in this House wants the fighting to end. The central debate is about the steps to bring that about, and there is a discussion across…15 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeFew of us in this House have the experience of my right hon. Friend. She knows that it is quiet, hard diplomacy that will bring about an end to the loss of life. She knows that we…15 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeI will just respond to my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Florence Eshalomi). She is of course right that all of us want to see a ceasefire and the laying down of arms. She…15 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justicerose—15 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeI have to answer the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts). I direct him to the statement from the United Nations Office for the…15 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeI give way to my right hon. Friend.15 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesDavid Cameron is the seventh Foreign Secretary in seven years of Tory chaos. He was forced to resign in failure over a matter of foreign policy. The Prime Minister has looked at…14 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesI thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. I would have liked to have started by welcoming the new Foreign Secretary to his place, but I cannot do so because he is…14 Nov 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineGeorge Mitchell, the great American peacemaker, said that diplomacy was “700 days of failure and one day of success”. Labour recognises the hard, quiet diplomacy required to…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineThe situation in Gaza is heartbreaking and deeply troubling. Does the Foreign Secretary agree that Israel must follow the laws of war by taking every possible step to protect…24 Oct 2023HANSARDGaza: Al-Ahli Arab Hospital Explosion( Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if he will make a statement on the explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in…18 Oct 2023HANSARDGaza: Al-Ahli Arab Hospital ExplosionThank you so much, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for his engagement with the Opposition at this very difficult time. Today,…18 Oct 2023HANSARDSri Lanka: Alleged War CrimesNearly 15 years after the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, the Sri Lankan Government continue to evade accountability and delay any scrutiny. As the Minister said, instead of…18 Jul 2023HANSARDIsrael and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesThe Minister will have heard the strength of feeling across the House this morning. Recently in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories we have seen new illegal…18 Jul 2023HANSARDHong Kong Nationals Living Overseas: Arrest WarrantsLast week’s Intelligence and Security Committee report exposed the consequences of more than a decade of Conservative division, inconsistency and complacency towards China. It…18 Jul 2023HANSARD IranI am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving me advance sight and notice of his statement. In the last year, the charge sheet against the Government of Iran has grown and…06 Jul 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineThe hon. Gentleman is right. President Zelensky committed to that at last week’s Ukraine recovery conference, and we need to support him. Democracy is forged in people-to-people…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineI am, again, grateful to my right hon. Friend—first for raising the issue of transparency, and secondly for raising the issue of Lord Agnew’s amendment and endorsing the point…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. That has been a standing issue that the official Opposition have taken up. We do think further reform is necessary at Companies House, and…27 Jun 2023HANSARD Repurposing Russian Assets to Rebuild UkraineThe right hon. Gentleman is right. He is right about the football team we both support—it is not the only thing he is right about, but he is right about that—and he is right that…27 Jun 2023