Commons
Debate
13 October 2025
Baby Loss
The points that the hon. Member is making about the choice of people to oversee the review or inquiry reflect the points made to me by two of my constituents, Amarjit and Mandip, who would have their daughter with them today were it not for failures at the Leeds general infirmary. The point they mad…
Commons
Debate
13 October 2025
Digital ID
Given the serious threats that digital ID poses to civil liberties and our data security and the risk of our data being handed over to US tech giants, I am firmly opposed to it. However, is it not also a real big waste of money, and should the Government not instead focus on the No. 1 priority of pe…
Commons
Debate
16 September 2025
Ambassador to the United States
The right hon. Gentleman talks about decisions by the Prime Minister. He talks about the duty on Members of this place and of the other place to conduct themselves appropriately. Does it surprise him, as it surprises me, that we have a situation where my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rach…
Commons
Debate
15 September 2025
Provision of Council Housing
My hon. Friend extensively quotes Aneurin Bevan, a man with whom he shares the honour of being unfairly suspended from the parliamentary Labour party. I am sure that, like Aneurin Bevan, he will return and go on to deliver greater things. Does he agree that a mass council house building programme co…
Commons
Proceedings
10 September 2025
Qatar: Israeli Strike
Israel is a rogue state that blatantly disregards international law. This bombing was a blatant attempt to scupper peace negotiations. Pleading with Israel will do no good, so how many more war crimes or violations of international law are necessary before the Government impose the tough sanctions o…
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
3 September 2025
Engagements
Q15. We are at a very dangerous political moment, with opinion polls warning that for the first time in our country’s history, we risk the election of an extremist far-right Government. We all have a duty to prevent that. To do so, do we not need to rebuild support through a return to real Labour va…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
1 September 2025
Middle East
Today, the world’s leading genocide scholars declared genocide in Gaza. Earlier this summer, famine was officially declared in Gaza. We have seen war crime after war crime, with more journalists killed and more hospitals bombed, and yet on sanctions the Government continue to drag their feet. How ca…
Commons
Debate
9 July 2025
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
Sometimes politics seems complicated. Sometimes the passage of a Bill through Parliament, especially with antics and shenanigans like those we saw last week, may confuse people. But actually, the issue before all of us when we vote tonight is very simple. Today, Wednesday 9 July 2025, are Labour MPs…
Commons
Debate
2 July 2025
Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism
I want to speak specifically about Palestine Action. It is most regrettable that the Government have tabled one order banning three organisations, when it knows that there is political disagreement on Palestine Action. That is no way to bring terror legislation to the House. I want to be clear and t…
Commons
Debate
1 July 2025
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
I wish that we were not here today. We do not need to be here today. There is nothing special or magical about this Tuesday—nothing at all. The deadline we have been given is to solve a political problem. That is why so many of us on the Labour Benches have been pleading with the Government to pull …
Commons
Petition
30 June 2025
Disability Support Cuts
I rise to present a petition on cuts to disability support, further to an online petition signed by more than 77,000 people.
The petition states:
The petition of residents of the United Kingdom,
Declares that a 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million could generate an additional £24 billion per …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
30 June 2025
Welfare Reform
Despite the changes, is it not the case that over 400,000 disabled people—our constituents—who need assistance to cut up their food, wash themselves, go to the toilet and dress themselves, will be denied PIP from next year, when they currently would have got it? Is not the reality that Labour MPs wi…
Commons
Oral Questions
24 June 2025
Topical Questions
The Foreign Secretary will be aware that Colombia and South Africa, as co-chairs of the Hague Group, have called an emergency ministerial conference in defence of international law and the rights of the Palestinian people, to take place in Bogotá in July. Countries across the world are confirming th…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
23 June 2025
Middle East
Iraq showed the grave dangers of following a right-wing US President into an illegal war for regime change. The consequences were hundreds of thousands of dead, mass destruction, mass devastation, regional chaos and wasted resources. Many fear that the same thing is happening now, so will the Foreig…
Commons
Oral Questions
Work and Pensions
23 June 2025
Personal Independence Payment
Is it not the simple and sad truth that any MP who votes for the upcoming welfare Bill will be voting to take PIP from disabled people who need assistance to cut up their food, wash themselves and go to the toilet?
Commons
Debate
20 June 2025
3 contributions
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Will my hon. Friend give way?
Will my hon. Friend give way on that particular point?
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Westminster Hall
17 June 2025
Disabled People in Poverty
It is extremely disappointing that the Government are pressing ahead with the cuts. They should have learned the lesson from the winter fuel payment debacle. Ahead of the coming votes, we will hear a lot of Government spin about how it is really about helping disabled people, but it is not. Labour c…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
16 June 2025
Iran-Israel Conflict
The deaths of Palestinians, Iranians and Israelis this weekend show why we must all push for peace and stop this from spiralling out of control. Does the Foreign Secretary support, as I do, a nuclear-free middle east? If so, what steps are the Government taking to also address Israel’s vast nuclear …
Commons
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister
11 June 2025
Engagements
Q4. Belated birthday greetings to you, Mr Speaker.It is wrong for any Labour Government to try to balance the books on the backs of disabled people, and no Labour Government should ever do it, but it is what the Prime Minister will ask the House to do in just a few weeks’ time. Many of us will not…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
10 June 2025
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
I have long called for comprehensive sanctions on Israel in response to its crimes against the Palestinian people, so the sanctions against two far-right Ministers are a step in the right direction, but Israel’s war crimes are about far more than a couple of bad apples, so much, much more needs to b…
Commons
Ministerial Statement
9 June 2025
Winter Fuel Payment
As a Labour MP who voted against the winter fuel payment cuts, I welcome this change in position, but I urge the Minister and the Government to learn the lessons. One of them is to listen to Back Benchers. If the Minister and the Government listen to Back Benchers, we can help the Government get it …
Commons
Ministerial Statement
4 June 2025
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
I must take issue with the Minister, when he said that the people outside this place wearing badges and marching are not making a difference. All that members of the public can do is wear badges and march, whereas Ministers in a Government can bring sanctions, end arms sales and hold the war crimina…
Commons
Debate
2 June 2025
3 contributions
Arms and Military Cargo Export Controls: Israel
One horrific example of why we must stop supplying the parts for the F-35 fighter jets is the al-Mawasi attack last July. F-35s dropped 2,000 lb bombs on a designated safe zone in Gaza, killing 90 civilians and injuring 300. The use of such powerful munitions in densely populated areas is clearly a …
Will the Minister give way?
+1 more contribution in this session
Commons
Debate
2 June 2025
Strategic Defence Review
The 12 new nuclear-powered AUKUS submarines will almost double the UK’s fleet of such submarines. Given that those submarines are to be shared with non-nuclear Australia, does that not go against the UK’s obligations under the non-proliferation treaty? As they are part of the AUKUS treaty—a treaty w…
Commons
Debate
2 June 2025
UK Nuclear Deterrent
Far from the claims by successive British Governments that Britain has an independent nuclear deterrent, is the reality not that it is entirely dependent on the United States both technically and politically? Instead of spending billions more on nuclear weapons while public services face real budget…