Representative
Member of the House of Lords
Conservative
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
Declarations of interests:
2026
, 2025
, 2024
, 2023
, 2022
Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)
01/10/2025 - Session PACE welcomes draft convention establishing an international claims commission for Ukraine 24/06/2025 - Session Parliamentarians debate the challenges facing the European Court of Human Rights 04/10/2024 - Session PACE proposes that the Council of Europe draw up a new instrument to address migrant smuggling 27/06/2024 - Session Council of Europe should establish a ‘mediation process’ to help resolve post-conflict disputes 01/12/2023 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Council of Europe should establish a ‘mediation process’ to help resolve post-conflict disputes
02/10/2025 | 10:13:48 President, colleagues, I congratulate Mr Iulian BULAI on his excellent presentation. At the end of this resolution, it's observed that matters of defence fall out with our remit. That may be strictly correct in a military sense, but this assembly is concerned with the defence of democracy, the defence of human rights, the defence of peace, defence of the right to self-determination. Colleagues, in 1962, the then US Secretary of State, Dean ACHESON, observed that Great Britain had lost an... 01/10/2025 | 17:52:43 Thank you, President. And thank you, colleagues. I appreciate the constructive contribution to this debate from all colleagues. Of course, many alluded to the requirement for a compensation fund, and quite a number referred to the potential complexities of dealing with the frozen assets of the Russian Federation. Ms Laura CASTEL, Mr Tony VAUGHAN, Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO included. Colleagues, I would remind you that when Alexander the Great arrived in the city of Gordium in what is now... 01/10/2025 | 17:11:10 President, Colleagues, I'm pleased to be able to introduce my report on the draft Convention Establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine. The Council of Ministers will seek to adopt this draft Convention during October, and the text will then be opened for signature at a diplomatic conference in The Hague on 16 December 2025. The matter is therefore one of urgency and a priority for the Council of Europe. But not only for the Council of Europe, but also for Ukraine. The text... 25/06/2025 | 20:14:03 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, on his opinion regarding the draft amending protocol to the Warsaw Convention. I should say that it was unanimously adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. The draft protocol underlines the Council’s commitment to adapting our legal framework in response to evolving challenges. Since its adoption twenty years ago, the Warsaw Convention has served as a vital tool in the fight against... 24/06/2025 | 11:29:42 Thank you, Mister President. Colleagues, what is apparent, I believe, taking a cross section of the views expressed here, is the need for us, as the Assembly, and a need for the Committee of Ministers to ensure that the terms of the Convention and its protocols reflect not only the fundamental rights and freedoms that they are intended to encompass, but also the democratic desires and the democratic aims of the state parties to the Convention. I welcome the open letter that I didn't receive...
30/09/2025 | Doc. 16270 | Report Draft convention establishing an international claims commission for Ukraine 27/02/2024 | Doc. 15933 | Report Reparation and reconciliation processes to overcome past conflicts and build a common peaceful future – the question of just and equal redress
09/02/2026 | Doc. 16326 | Written declaration Condemnation of the brutal crackdown by the Iranian Regime 22/01/2026 | Doc. 16326 | Written declaration Condemnation of the brutal crackdown by the Iranian Regime 14/11/2024 | Doc. 16073 | Written declaration The Parliamentary Assembly must support the Russian democratic opposition 01/10/2024 | Doc. 16051 | Motion for a resolution Violations of media freedom and the right to information in Poland 15/04/2024 | Doc. 15963 | Motion for a resolution A shared European approach to address migrant smuggling
29/01/2026 | Doc. 16334, vote on the draft text for resolution Threats against the international order: the case of Greenland 02/10/2025 | Doc. 16272, vote on the draft text for resolution Russia: new threats to European democracies 01/10/2025 | Doc. 16239, vote on the draft text for recommendation Youth movements for democracy 01/10/2025 | Doc. 16239, vote on the draft text for resolution Youth movements for democracy 01/10/2025 | Doc. 16270, vote on the draft text for opinion Draft convention establishing an international claims commission for Ukraine