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Joan Ryan Excerpts
Tuesday 15th May 2018

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who knows a great deal about Argentina. I will be going there at the end of the month to pursue the current improvement in relations taking place between our two countries.

Joan Ryan Portrait Joan Ryan (Enfield North) (Lab)
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President Erdoğan of Turkey, who is currently visiting this country, has called snap elections for 24 June. Those elections will be held under a state of emergency, severely curtailing the freedoms of expression, assembly and association, and the right to take part in public affairs. They will also introduce an executive presidency with wide-ranging powers that many see as an attack on democracy. What is the Government’s view?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I can tell the right hon. Lady that we had a conference with our Turkish friends only the other day and that, although the relationship between the UK and Turkey is very strong, as she knows, we took every opportunity to raise our concerns about human rights and the repression of the media.