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HANSARDPublic Order BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?07 Mar 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillI apologise to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton South (Andrew Lewer), because His Majesty the King was visiting my constituency today, so I arrived back too late to hear…07 Mar 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?07 Mar 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillI utterly respect the sincerity with which amendment (a) to Lords amendment 5 was moved and why my hon. Friend is supporting it. I am pleased to hear that the hon. Member for…07 Mar 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillJust to make the obvious point, the whole purpose of the buffer zones legislation is to create an exclusion zone around abortion clinics so that people with views they want to…07 Mar 2023HANSARD Prepayment Meters: Ofgem DecisionCan we be clear about the fact that, inexplicably, what has been happening has been completely legal? Nothing has changed since the gas and electricity Acts of the 1980s, and,…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Crustacean Mortality in North-east England: Independent Expert AssessmentI am on my feet because I have a crustacean industry in my constituency, and I also represent a constituent, Charles Clover, who is director of the Blue Marine Foundation. I have…26 Jan 2023HANSARD Agricultural Transition PlanI thank my right hon. Friend for his statement—what a blessing it is to have someone who knows so much about farming at the Dispatch Box—and in particular for his emphasis on food…26 Jan 2023HANSARD Ukraine UpdateI thank my hon. and learned Friend and the Government for the exemplary way in which the UK Government have led on all this. They have made a very significant and considerable…26 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of Russia’s grand strategy. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting this debate again, because I secured a…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI think that we are in denial of not just a cold war, but a hot war. The hot war that is being conducted in Ukraine is laced with rhetoric and invective about NATO being the…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI regard the United States as our closest and most important ally and personally I love the United States of America, but on its response to this crisis—it has been voluminous…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI certainly think that is the case, and I think the constant fear of our escalating the conflict has been misplaced because Putin has escalated the conflict anyway. There is…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI entirely agree with that, but in more direct response to my right hon. Friend the Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois), the timidity of the Germans not just to release…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI will, but I do want to press on, and I will probably be overrunning my time very shortly.19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyWe should not trash what the Government have done, which is considerable, but we should point out that the failure to do much more—much more—is going to cost us in the short term,…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyIn fact, it is even worse than that. The state-controlled media in Serbia simply broadcasts Russian propaganda and has recently accused Ukraine of killing its own civilians, when…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI reflect on the irony that one of the reasons why some of us wanted to leave the European Union was that it was insisting on having its own defence policy and armed forces,…19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyWill the hon. Gentleman give way?19 Jan 2023HANSARD Russia’s Grand StrategyI thank everyone who has taken part ably in this debate, and my hon. Friend the Minister for his response. I would point out to the Scottish nationalists that I do not think that…19 Jan 2023