Ukraine

Katherine Fletcher Excerpts
Monday 17th January 2022

(2 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Wallace Portrait Mr Wallace
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Not for the first time, I thank the hon. Gentleman for his suggestion. I will happily look at it and discuss it with my colleagues in the Cabinet.

On his point about Estonia, I am going next door to its neighbour Latvia, which of course has a Scottish embassy from the old days; Scotland and England did not trade together, so we went to Riga.

Katherine Fletcher Portrait Katherine Fletcher (South Ribble) (Con)
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In the early 1980s, a Soviet refugee from Ukraine called Mr Bailey had the unfortunate task of trying to teach me the cello. He was much more successful at teaching me about the proud history of Ukraine. What does this announcement do to our longstanding friendship with Ukraine more broadly in this context?