Ukraine Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Ukraine

Michael Fabricant Excerpts
Tuesday 22nd February 2022

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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We certainly are taking on the bankers. We are hitting Russia’s financial interests, and we will continue to hit them harder.

Michael Fabricant Portrait Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con)
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Eighty-five years ago, a predecessor of the Prime Minister talked about “a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing”. Does not the concordance between both sides of the House today demonstrate that that is not the case when it comes to Ukraine?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend is so right. I think that everyone who knows people in the Ukrainian community in Britain, which is so large and so active and makes such a fantastic contribution to our life, feels a huge amount of sympathy for the people of Ukraine today. This is a country with which we have familiarity and which we understand. It is a country that is a democracy and shares our values. That is what is at stake today.