Richard Burgon

Lab

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Commons Proceedings 14 May 2025
Gaza: UK Assessment
I am sick and tired of coming back to this Chamber, asking the same questions and getting the same answers, when war crime after war crime is being committed and a genocide is taking place. It is a sick joke to believe that it is right—which it is—to impose sanctions on Russia for its unlawful invas…
Commons Oral Questions Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 13 May 2025
Ukraine: Diplomacy
We all hope the mooted peace talks between Russia and Ukraine on ending Russia’s illegal invasion take place as quickly as possible, to stop the killing and save lives. Accountability is important, so will the Foreign Secretary outline his position on Russian war crimes and on how justice can be don…
Commons Oral Questions Work and Pensions 12 May 2025 2 contributions
Personal Independence Payment: Assessment Review
6. What progress her Department has made on its review of the personal independence payment assessment system.
There has rightly been a lot of focus on the 250,000 people the Government’s own impact assessment says will be pushed into poverty by this cruel disability benefit cut, but the true impact on poverty will be even worse. New DWP figures, obtained from a freedom of information request, show that 700,…
Commons Westminster Hall 7 May 2025
Personal Independence Payment: Disabled People
Harold Wilson once said: “The Labour party is a moral crusade, or it is nothing.” We need to be clear, as millions of people outside this place are clear, that to try to balance the books on the backs of the poor and disabled is fundamentally immoral and un-Labour. The Prime Minister and the Gover…

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