Food Insecurity in Developing Countries due to Blockade of Ukrainian Ports Debate

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Food Insecurity in Developing Countries due to Blockade of Ukrainian Ports

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Thursday 21st July 2022

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Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle Portrait Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GP)
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Well, I have one sentence, to finish, about that transnational land ownership. In the Victorian-era British Empire, men who stood in this very Chamber forced Indian soldiers, abused into submission by the vicious repression after the Great Rebellion, to guard trains that were taking away desperately needed food from their wives and children, to be shipped to these shores—

Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
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My Lords, that is a very long sentence.

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle Portrait Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GP)
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Will we tolerate the same thing happening in the 21st century?

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