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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"I have served for many years with the right hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) and, dare I say it, we have not agreed on everything over the years, but we have published a few articles on this topic. Those articles have always started with the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q7. The Government quite rightly give full and unequivocal support to Israel in its bid to end the scourge of Iran’s nuclear weapons programme forever. Will they also work with our allies to try and convince the Israeli Government that it is not in the long-term security interests of Israel …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Crime and Policing Bill

"I agree. Let me move to new clause 20. I am dealing with very narrow legal points, and it might be of interest to the House that the KC concludes that the new clause

“would render the 24-week time limit obsolete in respect of the prosecution of women who undertake …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Crime and Policing Bill

"My concerns about these amendments were such that I and others commissioned a leading King’s Counsel to draft a legal opinion regarding their effects. Let me inform Members of his conclusions. I begin with new clause 1. The KC confirms that, under new clause 1, in practice,

“it would no …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Iran-Israel Conflict

"The Foreign Secretary knows that many of us have been prepared to speak up again and again on behalf of suffering Palestinians and be a critical friend of Israel, but will he agree that on this occasion we must stand shoulder to shoulder with our Israeli ally? The fact is, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Iran-Israel Conflict

"Thank you...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 13 Jun 2025
Business without Debate

"Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. It might be useful if a Member of Parliament who has not often taken part in demos in central London intervenes at this point to show that opinion in this House of Commons is absolutely united. In various Parliaments—indeed, in most …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Spending Review: Health and Social Care

"Our spending on the NHS is now as much as the entire GDP of Portugal. We used to be a country with an NHS attached to it, but we are almost becoming an NHS with a country attached to it. Of course we would welcome this spending if we got …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"8. What recent engagement his Department has had with the Intelligence and Security Committee. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Has the Minister had a discussion with the Intelligence and Security Committee as to why our normally sophisticated operations have not succeeded in making any significant dent in smashing the gangs and stopping the boats? Perhaps he might ask the Committee whether its view is that such is the pull …..."
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