I am grateful to the Prime Minister for sending me a copy of the statement 45 minutes ago—an hour ago; I am sorry—and I am pleased that he has now decided to finally update the House. However, it is a bit unfortunate that despite his trumpeting of the sovereignty of national Parliaments in his EU …
Jeremy Corbyn (Urgent Question): To ask the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the proposal for discussion of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union, to be published later today by the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. The Minister for Europe (Mr David Lidington): At about 11.35 this morning, …
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Dear Prime Minister In the light of continuing reports from the United Nations and other organisations of breaches of international humanitarian law in the conflict in Yemen, we are writing to call on you to launch immediately a full review of arms export licences to Saudi Arabia and to suspend arms sales to that country until the …
Jeremy Corbyn: On behalf of the Opposition, I welcome the remarks the Prime Minister made about Holocaust Memorial Day. It is the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. We have to remember the deepest, darkest days of inhumanity that happened then and the genocides that have sadly happened since. We must educate another generation …
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. I’ve signed the Holocaust Educational Trust Book of Commitment: “To remember the holocaust is a vital way of saying to all generations that the tragedy and brutality and loss must never be repeated. We must …
Today I went to the Grande-Synthe refugee camp, near Dunkirk, and the emergency refugee camp in Calais, in northern France. The plight of thousands of refugees in Calais and Dunkirk, destitute and forced to live in inhuman conditions, is an affront to our common humanity which demands action by both France and Britain. We must …
