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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman raises an important issue. The role we will play is to bring home some of the lessons we have learned from taking action with allies, for example in relation to disinformation...

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The issue of health and humanitarian access in Gaza is essential, and my hon. Friend is absolutely right that the blocking of aid is absolutely outrageous. I do not speculate on the sanctions...

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

Yes, I do agree with the right hon. Gentleman. That is something that we are discussing with our UAE counterparts. Alistair Burt’s role will also be important in this. We absolutely want to...

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I think the answer came from Members in the right hon. Gentleman’s former party. The money that we spend on foreign aid is absolutely about preventing the problems from elsewhere in the...

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I think we have answered this question before. I do not have anything further to add to previous answers.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

We do not engage in that way with the Russians and have not for a number of years. As I have said throughout this session, we are absolutely clear about the need to counter the Russian hybrid threat.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

Our belief in the United Kingdom and in keeping our United Kingdom together is absolute and clear. The First Minister of Scotland can have his visits.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend, as always, speaks a great deal of sense, as do her constituents. She is right, and the role of our G20 summit and— the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir Andrew...

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I gently remind the right hon. Gentleman that the House of Commons has primacy in our legislative arrangements. That is a long-standing convention, I would say. On his point about the courts, at...

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

Let me add my congratulations and thanks to the Clerk of the House. On the Chagos islands, which the right hon. Gentleman is referring to, we have always sought to find a way forward that...

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman is right to raise this; Iran and its proxies are a direct threat to us; we need only look at the attempted attack at RAF Fairford to see that. We take this incredibly...

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I want to express my thanks to police and security services for their response to the incident at RAF Fairford, including the action that they have taken today. As the Prime Minister has said,...

Defence and Security: European Partners

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I am not going to go all the way with the hon. Gentleman—[Laughter.] Sorry; that was an unfortunate turn of phrase. In all seriousness, we have had 10 years of looking at the status quo and...

Defence and Security: European Partners

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I will not get into the details of that attack today, but we are absolutely happy to name those who are engaging in information warfare, and I have talked a lot in this session about Russia and...

Defence and Security: European Partners

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I have great respect for the right hon. Gentleman, but he is wrong about that. We have actually introduced a phased ban on maritime services in relation to gas, and that licence expires in...

Defence and Security: European Partners

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

My right hon. Friend always speaks a good deal of sense on these questions. In response to the fundamental point, let me repeat what I said in an earlier answer: we are determined to tackle the...

Defence and Security: European Partners

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

The right hon. Gentleman speaks with enormous authority about these issues and has a proud record in that regard, and I could not agree with him more on the substantive part of his question about...

Defence and Security: European Partners

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

We do have a defence and security partnership with the European Union, but my hon. Friend speaks eloquently about these issues. As I said in an earlier answer, we want to do more work with the...

Defence and Security: European Partners

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

In recent weeks I have been in Warsaw and Ukraine discussing defence and security with key allies. There is no bigger test of our values and our commitment to European security than Ukraine, and...

West Bank: Illegal Settlements

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I can assure the hon. Gentleman that that work carries on. We have excellent civil servants who work on all these issues, including potential breaches of international humanitarian law, and we...