Deputy
Conservative
House of Commons
GB - SW1A OAA - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
22/01/2024 - Session German delegation challenged at opening of PACE session 14/06/2023 - Monitoring PACE monitors, ending visit: issues of serious concern persist in Azerbaijan despite some steps taken to meet Council of Europe commitments 01/06/2023 - Monitoring PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs to visit Azerbaijan 26/04/2023 - Monitoring The Lachin corridor: statement by the PACE monitors for Azerbaijan and Armenia 13/02/2023 - Monitoring PACE monitors call on Azerbaijan authorities to immediately release Bakhtiyar Hajiyev
30/09/2024 | 15:53:34 Mister President, Is this thing working? Yes, it is. Can I just start by saying goodbye? This is my last time here at the Council of Europe. I've done 14 years; nine as group leader of the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance. I hand over in a few hours time to my friend and colleague, Mr Zsolt NÉMETH. I would just ask, and I listened to Mr Iulian BULAI, who is a close friend and I'm a great admirer of his, talking eloquently about Georgia, Mr Mogens JENSEN talking about... 15/04/2024 | 12:52:24 Thank you, Mister President. There is an old saying, which is "May you live in interesting times". I think at the moment it's a little bit too interesting, but it is a challenge to us all. Seventy-five years ago, Sir Winston Churchill came here to set up this organisation. Why did he set it up? Why was it embraced by Europe? Because at the time we'd come out of a devastating war. We're looking again at a problem which we are not being able to control. It's easier for us to sit in here and... 22/01/2024 | 15:49:27 I am very grateful, indeed, for the words I have heard about Sir Tony LLOYD, Mr David WILSHIRE, and also colleague Mr John HOWELL, who is extremely ill in hospital. I am very grateful everybody here for the best wishes they have given to the British delegation. I will say that there are a lot of challenges that are facing this organisation. It is very easy for us, especially where the war in Ukraine is concerned, to be able to cast stones. This war has been fought by proxy. Unfortunately, the... 09/10/2023 | 15:51:57 Thank you Mister President. May I say, how delighted we all are to be here. Progress is set by what you achieve, Mister President, as you well know. We now have a situation which in our life span - I'm 64, a little bit younger than the President, but not a heck of a lot - I remember out on those screens, 1968, when the tanks rolled in Czechoslovakia. I remember as a boy watching it, I wasn't older than eight, but it was ingrained in ourselves that this was something terrible. We move forward... 21/06/2023 | 16:11:31 Thank you very much indeed, Tiny. I am very grateful to be able to talk and I thank the rapporteur. A budget is – the clue is in the name – a budget is the ability to do what you want to do over a period, sometimes here in our case slightly longer. But let's look at this in the cold light of day. We have to be aware of what we can and can't do. And Mr Rik DAEMS was our former president and I don't disagree with what you said there, Rik, so well done, but a budget has got to look at every part...
12/02/2024 | Doc. 15927 | Report The honouring of obligations and commitments by Azerbaijan 05/10/2020 | Doc. 15157 | Report Democracies facing the Covid-19 pandemic 28/09/2017 | Doc. 14407 | Report Follow-up to Resolution 1903 (2012): promoting and strengthening transparency, accountability and integrity of Parliamentary Assembly members 24/01/2017 | Doc. 14248 | Report The need to reform European migration policies
01/10/2024 | Doc. 16051 | Motion for a resolution Violations of media freedom and the right to information in Poland 02/07/2024 | Doc. 15973 | Written declaration Kazakhstan’s progress on human rights, democracy and co-operation with the Council of Europe 13/06/2024 | Doc. 16008 | Written declaration The need to reassess European Union’s strategic interests in the domain of regional and international security 17/04/2024 | Doc. 15973 | Written declaration Kazakhstan’s progress on human rights, democracy and co-operation with the Council of Europe 24/01/2024 | Doc. 15907 | Motion for a resolution Media pluralism under threat in Poland
22/06/2023 | Doc. 15797, vote on the draft text for resolution Political consequences of the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine 22/06/2023 | Doc. 15795, vote on the draft text for resolution War of aggression against Ukraine – Participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics? 21/06/2023 | Doc. 15780, vote on the draft text for opinion Budgets and priorities of the Council of Europe for the period 2024-2027 21/06/2023 | Doc. 15781, vote on the draft text for resolution Expenditure of the Parliamentary Assembly for the biennium 2024-2025 13/10/2022 | Doc. 15615, vote on the draft text for resolution The impact of Brexit on human rights on the island of Ireland