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Neale Hanvey

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Points of Order
Tuesday 8th November 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mr Speaker, if I may, I will ask the noble Lord Goldsmith to write to my hon. Friend with the details.

Neale Hanvey Portrait Neale Hanvey (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) (Alba)
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T9. UK Foreign Secretaries of every political hue thrive on declaring themselves defenders of democracy the world over. I am sure the Minister would agree with Aristotle that the absence of democracy leads only to oligarchy or tyranny. Given that democracy is a continuous process and not a single event, does the Minister accept that Westminster’s continued denial of Scottish democracy makes a laughing stock of UK foreign policy, and is it oligarchy or tyranny, when an argument for both could easily be mounted?

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