Ukraine

Toby Perkins Excerpts

Tuesday 22nd February 2022 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

Yes of course we will, because what is at stake is not just the future of Ukraine but our principles and our values.

[Mr Toby Perkins (Chesterfield) (Lab)]

I come back to the questions asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) and the right hon. and learned Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buckland). The Prime Minister has been resolute about how wrong President Putin is in the actions he has taken, but it feels as though the message President Putin will be hearing from us is that the incursions that have gone on so far have had a proportionate response and that nothing else will happen unless he goes further. The Prime Minister is already speaking about an expectation that he will go further. Should we not instead say that further sanctions will be coming unless we get a withdrawal of the invasions that have already taken place? Should not that be the message that he takes from this House, given that there is clearly widespread support for it?

[The Prime Minister]

Of course. I want to be clear that the reason we are doing it in this way is because I think that the unity of the west is the priority.