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HANSARDTopical QuestionsWill the Secretary of State today agree to publish clear, honest and regular statistics on the number of illegal migrants convicted of sexual offences, murder or indeed any other…11 Nov 2025HANSARD Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human RightsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. What does the ECHR actually mean for British people? Let us go through a few examples. A convicted Sri Lankan sex…05 Nov 2025HANSARD Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human RightsThe interventions held me up, Mr Mundell.05 Nov 2025HANSARD Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human RightsPlease spare me the continued moral outrage. I am bored of it. The British people are bored of it. It is not cruel to deport criminals, and it is not inhumane to defend our own…05 Nov 2025HANSARD Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human RightsNo. A Zimbabwean was jailed for killing a man in a car crash but allowed to stay in Britain after it was discovered that he had an illicit love child. I do not care. A convicted…05 Nov 2025HANSARD Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human RightsWhat about the human rights of the British people? They have the right not to be raped, stabbed and killed by foreigners who should never have been in our country to begin with.…05 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThrough freedom of information requests, Restore Britain has uncovered unpublished Treasury analysis breaking down contributions by ethnicity. Evidently the data exists, so will…04 Nov 2025HANSARDHolidays During School Term TimeI agree with the hon. Member. Why should working families be priced out of memories—particularly parents such as those in my Great Yarmouth constituency, who rely so heavily on…27 Oct 2025HANSARDHolidays During School Term TimeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. Parents bring their children into this world; they clothe them, feed them, love them, raise them and, yes, educate…27 Oct 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseMy new political movement, Restore Britain, is currently running a membership poll on support for deporting all illegal migrants. The response, from thousands of people, is almost…11 Sept 2025HANSARD UK Ambassador to the US: Appointment ProcessI concur with the comments about Charlie Kirk that the Minister made at the beginning. It shows that anybody who is brave enough to put themselves up for public service and try to…11 Sept 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformAfter 20 years in the City of London, over the last year I have had to endure a stream of what I would call financially illiterate verbal baby food. Today I hear the Chancellor…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformMy question is this: is the Minister aware of the concept of buyer beware, or caveat emptor, which used to be the basis of financial regulation? It is very risky to force people…16 Jul 2025HANSARDTrial by Jury: Proposed RestrictionsJury trial has been deeply embedded in the British psyche and, indeed, in our constitution since Henry II, who introduced it in order to deal fairly with land disputes. It is also…09 Jul 2025HANSARDNon-stun Slaughter of AnimalsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I accept that this is a very sensitive debate. We all get along fine in Parliament, so I hope that Members will accept…09 Jun 2025HANSARDNon-stun Slaughter of AnimalsI am going to finish. A halal abattoir can brutally butcher an animal alive, and all is fine. Where is the fairness in that? Where is the humanity in that? This is not a fringe…09 Jun 2025HANSARDNon-stun Slaughter of AnimalsI do, and I will cover that at the end of my speech. We are all eating halal meat without knowing it. I find that morally repugnant. We should ban non-stun slaughter, we should…09 Jun 2025HANSARDNon-stun Slaughter of AnimalsThe issue of stunning is complex, as the hon. Member probably knows. The halal stun is a lower voltage than the non-halal stun. As the hon. Member for Dewsbury and Batley (Iqbal…09 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ14. Does the Prime Minister agree that imprisoning Lucy Connolly, a young mother with a 12-year-old daughter, for one foolish social media post that was soon deleted is clearly…21 May 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords]I should declare my interests, as on the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, in two football-related businesses as a result of my chairmanship of Southampton football club.…28 Apr 2025