The Speech I would Have Made In The House of Lords Opposing A New Law Which Would Permit Abortion Up To And Even During Birth. Whether you are pro choice or pro life this is a profound change which all should agree warranted more than 46 minutes of backbench debate in House of

Losing Faith in China - See Geopolitical Futures https://t.co/RA8SQiRU6P At an ad hoc Politburo Study Session last week, CCP leader Xi Jinping called for the acceleration of the Sinicization of religions; for CCP party committees to strengthen their control of religion and to

Important: @Mike_Pence Demands the Release of Leading Christians in China @APPGFoRB https://t.co/THU4V1G4CH

@CommonsSpeaker @LordSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @HelenaKennedyKC @MPIainDS @timfarron @hk_watch @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @iguangcheng @BobFu4China @UKParliament @UKHouseofLords @CitySamuel @ipacglobal @BenWallace70 @LiamFox @MarkLClifford @MarkSabah @Stand_with_HK @BrendanOHaraMP @amcarmichaelMP @natalieben @Chloe_chc_25 BREAKING: It is reported that China had outrageously warned @Keir_Starmer that he faces “consequences” if he doesn’t approve its embassy in London. So now are we going to add the word capitulate to the three “C” words which the Government says embodies its China policy?

@CommonsSpeaker @LordSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @HelenaKennedyKC @MPIainDS @timfarron @hk_watch @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @iguangcheng @BobFu4China @UKParliament @UKHouseofLords @CitySamuel Blackmail or bribe? Orca mixture of both? Are reports true that compensation of £1 billion for British Steel could be written off by the China company, Jingye, if Ministers give a green light to the new mega CCP embassy? Today the announcement was delayed again - until December

Globally, Iran comes only behind China as the world’s most ardent and prolific executioner - as of yesterday, the number of barbaric executions under President Masoud Pezeshkian surpassed 2,000 in just 14 and a half months. AFP has reported on a mass sit-in and hunger strike by

@CommonsSpeaker @LordSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @HelenaKennedyKC @MPIainDS @timfarron @hk_watch @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @iguangcheng @BobFu4China @UKParliament @UKHouseofLords CCP, spies, & the sanctioned parliamentarians: in today’s @CitySamuel says “They recognised early that Britain was a dangerously soft target, they pushed inside and outside government for others to recognise the threat, and what was their reward? They were sanctioned, hacked,

Our new Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood is right. Countries must have control of their borders . This requires imaginative international solutions to address the root causes of mass migration - including a new safe city on the North African coast. For years I have repeatedly

The CCP’s War On Faith-genocide of Uyghur Muslims, atrocities against Tibetan Buddhists and Falon Gong, imprisonment of Christians and desecration of churches, are all gross violations of Article 18 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Good to see @dsnorthnorth speaking

@CommonsSpeaker @LordSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @HelenaKennedyKC @MPIainDS @timfarron @hk_watch @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @iguangcheng @BobFu4China @UKParliament @UKHouseofLords This intervention by @MPIainDS sums up why @UKParliament must insist on establishing truth and transparency. It is intolerable that a hostile state can imagine that it can get away with transnational repression , spying, sanctioning parliamentarians and be rewarded with

In 2019 in Hong Kong it was my privilege to present Joshua Wong with the Westminster Award for Human Rights, Human Life and Human Dignity. His continued imprisonment is an affront to justice. One day Joshua’s courage and defence of democracy will be celebrated in the halls of the

Government half answers my Question in @UKParliament on the use and roll out of technology by public sector contracting authorities -under the terms of the Procurement Act 2023 – to assess the presence of forced labour in suppliers’ operation technology. Technology holds the

Bus Bill debate @UKHouseofLords last night: Crossbencher colleague Lord Hampton said in London alone 1 person is killed each month & 16 injured each day in bus accidents. Grateful in my continued absence for his good wishes to the 16 people hospitalised in the recent Victoria bus

@CommonsSpeaker @LordSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @HelenaKennedyKC @MPIainDS @timfarron @hk_watch @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @iguangcheng @BobFu4China @UKParliament Government being “economical with the truth”. In @UKHouseofLords last night Robin Butler (Lord Butler), former head of the civil service, former Cabinet Secretary and Private Secretary to 5 Prime Minsters, called up the famous remark of another Cabinet Secretary, Sir Robert

@CommonsSpeaker @LordSpeaker @Keir_Starmer @HelenaKennedyKC @MPIainDS @timfarron @hk_watch @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @iguangcheng @BobFu4China Ministers and the National Security Adviser need to appear together before a @UKParliament committee and explain themselves - and stop blaming journalists or junior officials. See https://t.co/2Cf1NMHdnh and

When is a threat not a threat threat? It’s when a regime commits genocide against Uyghur Muslims; destroys democracy in Hong Kong; intimidates Taiwan; persecutes Tibetans & Falun Gong practitioners; declares war on people of faith; puts bounties on UK residents; commits

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CCP spies - time for transparency and truth. The Intelligence & Security Committee of @UKParliament under the watchful chairmanship of @LordBeamish @RtHonKevanJones is being formally asked by members of @HouseofCommons & @UKHouseofLords to call officials and the Minister to

In 1980, Patricia Routledge joined the cast of the NY Public Theater's outdoor Pirates of Penzance in Central Park. Here she is with Rex Smith and Kevin Kline. 1/2

So sad to see news of Dame Patricia Routledge’s death. In the 1990s, Patricia was part of a small group brought together at Lambeth by Eileen Carey to raise money for the restoration of a Church Army hostel for homeless women. Patricia, Eileen,Frank Field,Sir Tim Waterstone and I