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Rupa Huq Excerpts
Tuesday 30th July 2024

(3 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Lammy Portrait Mr Lammy
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I was very pleased, alongside the Prime Minister, to meet the Irish Taoiseach and to discuss that and other issues.

Rupa Huq Portrait Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)
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Mr Speaker, you and I are both old enough to remember Tiananmen Square. The use of lethal force on student protesters in Bangladesh has rightly been condemned by our Government. I urge the Government to put pressure on the Bangladeshi investigation, so that it has an international element, because a country that can just turn off all communications with the outside world and that controls all institutions, right down to its stormtrooper-like police, should not be allowed to mark its own homework.

Catherine West Portrait Catherine West
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My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has been very clear that what has happened in the last couple of weeks in Bangladesh is not acceptable—we have raised it on a number of occasions—including the nature of the judicial review that is currently being undertaken by the Government of Bangladesh.