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HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI am grateful for the opportunity to speak in the debate. I have just welcomed Little Amal to Parliament Square. Little Amal is the 3.5-metre puppet which has travelled 8,000 km…07 Dec 2021HANSARDNatural History GCSEIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I am standing in today for the previous shadow Schools Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Hove (Peter Kyle), who…01 Dec 2021HANSARDBlack Friday: Financial ProductsI congratulate my hon. Friend on all the work that she has done on this issue, as mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West). Let me pick…23 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI beg to move, That this House has considered the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. A lot of Members will be well…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI give way to the hon. Gentleman.16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI give way again.16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe Prime Minister did meet us shortly after becoming Prime Minister, but he has not done so in recent years. After dealing with this case for nearly six years, having tabled…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI was planning to thank everyone who spoke in the debate, but the list is too long, I am afraid. MPs are very lucky that we can sit here and talk and it is recorded in Hansard ,…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI am appreciative of the fact that the new Foreign Secretary called me as soon as she was in post and said that she was dealing with Nazanin. She also called us in for a meeting,…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThat is the frustration that Nazanin expresses every time I speak to her: that her Government are not doing enough for her as a British citizen. The people she was in jail with…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI have rarely seen such a crowded Westminster Hall debate. It demonstrates the amount of affection and concern that we have for Nazanin. I think Richard will report that back to…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI give way to the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry)16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe other point I will make—then I will take another intervention—is that I do not think that as a country we can take the moral high ground in relation to Iran and to Nazanin if…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThe truth is that the Prime Minister made an enormous blunder when giving evidence to Parliament, and I hope he feels responsible for that. As a result, I hope he takes some…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeThat was a tragic case, and I know my hon. Friend fought very hard for her constituent. Before I get to a series of questions that I want to ask the Minister, I would like to give…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI absolutely agree. I will ask the Minister a series of questions, and then I know that there are lots of hon. Members who want to speak. Why will the Government not acknowledge…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI will take an intervention in a minute, but I want to make a little more progress. The Leader of the House told me in March that Iran was holding us to ransom. He said that “the…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI will come to the topic of the three former Foreign Secretaries and what they have said. In terms of Prime Ministers, one of the problems that I have always had with this case is…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank the right hon. Member for his intervention. He is absolutely right, because those countries have brought their people home. Indeed, Australia actually managed to bring…16 Nov 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeI thank the hon. Member for her intervention. I think that Members from across the House can probably hear the frustration in my voice, because I am very worried that my…16 Nov 2021