Ukraine and Wider Operational Update

Alex Ballinger Excerpts

Wednesday 7th January 2026 Commons Chamber

[Alex Ballinger (Halesowen) (Lab)]

Unlike the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Richard Tice), I am very concerned that the leader of Reform UK has gone on television today to reject sending British troops to Ukraine to help secure a sustainable peace—

[Richard Tice]

That is not what he said.

[Alex Ballinger]

That is exactly what he said. Does the Secretary of State agree that the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) should be ashamed, because we owe so much to the Ukrainian people who have fought so hard to secure democracy in Europe, and that this shows for real how much closer the leader of Reform is to Putin’s priorities than to the priorities of the UK?

[Richard Tice]

You are inadvertently misleading the House—