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HANSARD Belarus: Presidential ElectionsIt is a great pleasure to hear the statement from my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, who has laid out an impressive, decent and strong series of proposals, and it is very…24 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillThat is simply not what I am saying, and it is quite clear that it is not what I am saying. What I am saying very clearly is that there is a fundamental difference between an…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI agree with my right hon. Friend, and the important point about the Bill is that it recognises the difference between a crime and an error. We all know that crimes should be…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI will accept that this is an overseas operations Bill and that being on patrol in Helmand is different from being on guard at Buckingham Palace, and therefore the rights that…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillIs my right hon. Friend aware that it is not only the United Kingdom facing an issue with the extraterritoriality of the ECHR? The French Conseil d’État —in which I must declare…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI appreciate the hon. Lady’s point about the confusion of post-conflict societies and therefore about the statute of limitations, but would she not accept that this goes both…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI want to pick up the point made by the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty)—I am glad to see him wearing his Royal College of Defence Studies tie; there…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillWill my right hon. Friend give way on that point?23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI am very pleased to hear the hon. Gentleman talking about this because it matters so much to many of us. But there is a difference, surely, between overseas operations and…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI know that the hon. and learned Lady has a much finer legal mind than mine, but I merely draw her attention to clause 3(2)(b), which refers to “no compelling new evidence”.…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillI just wondered whether my hon. Friend would like also to praise the Minister’s hair.23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this afternoon, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to follow my friend, the hon. Member for Glasgow South (Stewart Malcolm McDonald), who made some…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillTo make a small point of clarification, Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie has rethought his words, having spoken to the Chief of the General Staff.23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillNo.23 Sept 2020HANSARD Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) BillThe right hon. Gentleman must recognise—I am sure he knows this well, having spoken to his opposite numbers in socialist or left-wing parties around Europe—that many other…23 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI am delighted to follow my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) and my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Jeremy…21 Sept 2020HANSARDJapan Free Trade AgreementFirst, I congratulate my right hon. Friend on this fantastic deal, which demonstrates not just Britain’s place in Asia, but Britain’s place on the Asian and American continent as…14 Sept 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy right hon. Friend is making some clear points. Will he make it absolutely clear that any breach of the withdrawal agreement will come only at the very end of a long process, at…14 Sept 2020HANSARD Child Cruelty Offences: SentencingI thank my hon. Friend for his words. He is absolutely right that a review of child sentencing is required, because we are really talking about demonstrating that our society and…11 Sept 2020HANSARD Child Cruelty Offences: SentencingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. This law—or rather, the law that I tried to introduce and am now arguing for—would not change the minimum sentence. If there were extenuating…11 Sept 2020