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Robert Jenrick Excerpts
Tuesday 21st November 2017

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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If the hon. Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick) will confine himself to a short sentence, I will call him, but if he won’t, I won’t.

Robert Jenrick Portrait Robert Jenrick (Newark) (Con)
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There is no hiding from the fact that the loss of a British judge on the International Court of Justice is a major failure for British diplomacy. What lessons will the Foreign Office learn to ensure that this does not happen again?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I cannot quite agree with the construction my hon. Friend places on events, but I repeat my congratulations to the Indian judge. As the House will know, a long-standing objective of UK foreign policy has been to support India in the United Nations.