22/04/2026 | 18:59:31 Madam President, Today we speak the name of Mr Sergei MAGNITSKY not simply to remember a tragedy, but to recognise what one individual can represent in the face of a corrupt system. He was not a politician. He was not a public figure. He was an ordinary man who, when confronted with extraordinary wrongdoing, chose to act with courage. For that, he paid the ultimate price, leaving behind a wife and two children and a story that might easily have been buried – but it was not. His legacy did not... 22/04/2026 | 11:23:02 ...to protect women and call out violence against it, but we should be courageous as well. We should not be afraid of calling out the grooming of young girls, forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation, because we are worried about being accused of being racist. We have to protect all women and speak up for traditional European values of respect for women. There are serious questions, it has to be said, about the Istanbul Convention. Is gender a social construct? Should we... 21/04/2026 | 18:10:14 Thank you, Madam President. Of course, we all believe in freedom of religion. I personally, and none of us here, would attack any person's religious belief. Nobody would do something so outrageous as to burn the Koran or anything like that, or to criticise Islam, but having said that, we have to fight for freedom of expression. The truth is that I'm a Catholic. The overwhelming prejudice, martyrdoms, attacks on people around the world are because they are Christian. People feel it, even in... 21/04/2026 | 11:03:55 Mister Chairman, I would like to start by paying tribute to my murdered friend, Mr David AMESS. His only crime was to attend a surgery to look after his own constituents, and he was stabbed to death by an Islamist extremist. He had made no criticism of Islam. He spent most of his political career actually defending the rights of animals. And for that crime, he was murdered, ruthlessly and horribly. So this is an important debate. And we should call out hatred wherever it is found. It gives... 20/04/2026 | 16:38:02 You know perfectly well, Mister Minister, that there is no effective deterrent against the boats crossing the Channel. Dozens are dying every year. Successive British governments have begged you to be fraternal and to take back these migrants when they are picked up in Dover. You have refused to do so. Your policemen stand on the beach and watch these people wading out the boats. They do nothing. Is it because you want to offload these migrants onto Great Britain? Do you want to have more of... 28/01/2026 | 11:13:17 Mr Vice President, I support what my colleague Baroness Thérèse COFFEY says on votes at 16. Now, the report is right to stress the importance of young people understanding democratic institutions. We all agree. It does not sufficiently distinguish between neutral civil education, the responsibility of the state and its educational partners, and normative political instruction. The responsibility of non-state political actors in a free society. This distinction, that is crucial if trust in... 27/01/2026 | 18:08:03 Russian aggression is absolutely appalling, and, of course, we must stand up to it, and there could be no surrender. I don't think we should be depressed about the outcome of this appalling act of aggression by Mr Vladimir PUTIN. He may be a tyrant, but he's not really a very effective war-making tyrant. In the four years of this war, he's marched, let's say, 30 miles. In that time, Josef STALIN marched all the way from the Volga to Berlin. So there is hope. We must pile pressure on Russia... 26/01/2026 | 16:23:41 Madam President, The Convention of Human Rights, as the Minister from Germany has reminded us, is, in its inception, a very good document. And I would remind delegates here that it was the leader of the Conservative Party, Winston CHURCHILL, who helped draft it. And this body is at its best when it fights tyranny. For instance, what Russia is attempting to do in Ukraine. And the Convention, of course, was created to fight the evils of fascism and communism. But I have to tell you that it is... 01/10/2025 | 11:49:01 Mr President, This body is only powerful and only has real point when we're completely united. And I think in that sense, this debate now is a high point of our week. Yesterday evening, we had a debate on Hungary; we were divided. I'm not sure what that will achieve. But today – I'm a conservative – I've agreed with every single word of every single speech that has been made so far. I've agreed with the very moving and powerful speech made by Mr Conor MURPHY right at the beginning of this... 30/09/2025 | 19:04:18 Well, we all know what this is about. There's an election coming up and this is a ridiculous attempt to try and influence the election. But of course, the Hungarian people are much, far too robust to take note of this kind of nonsense. We know what's going on here. The left hate Mr Viktor ORBAN with an absolute passion because he's a winner. Even the socialist rapporteur who introduced this report admitted that Fidesz wins, wins fair and square. But they hate him, of course, because he's a...