Substitute
Member of the House of Lords
Conservative
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
04/06/2025 - Monitoring PACE monitors to make fact-finding visit to Türkiye 16/04/2025 - Election observation PACE delegation calls for stronger co-operation between parliaments and electoral management bodies 09/04/2025 - Session PACE calls for the ‘immediate release’ of the Mayor of Istanbul, whose arrest and detention ‘appear politically-motivated’ 29/01/2025 - Election observation PACE election observers launch a Parliamentary Alliance for Free and Fair Elections 11/12/2024 - Election observation In Gdansk, PACE representative unveils the Assembly’s Network of Election Observers
09/04/2025 | 17:13:50 Mister Vice-President, This has been a good debate and I am grateful that there is strong support for our resolution and our recommendations. I counted 17 speakers in support of our report and two against. Let me reassure all colleagues that it gives us no pleasure whatsoever to make these recommendations. Just 3 months after the 6 countries created the Council of Europe, Türkiye joined and has been an esteemed member since 1949, all of our 75 years of existence. Some supporters of the... 09/04/2025 | 16:03:57 Thank you, Mister President. First of all, my colleague and joint rapporteur Mr Stefan SCHENNACH sends his profuse apologies. He has been elected leader of his party group and has had to return to Austria to participate in a debate in Parliament. He is in complete agreement with this report. On Monday, the Assembly decided to hold an urgent debate on the detention of the mayor of Istanbul, Mr Ekrem İMAMOĞLU, and the state of democracy and human rights in Türkiye, and we are honoured to be... 28/01/2025 | 11:49:55 Thank you, Madam Chair. I congratulate the rapporteur on her valiant efforts here. But I regret that the rules-based international order she wishes for here no longer exists. First, there is no single international order. There are multiple international orders. The United Nations and the UN Charter provide a general foundation but there are a variety of multilateral but not global institutions that co-ordinate or regulate members' conduct, providing some limited rule-based order such as the... 27/01/2025 | 17:03:47 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Sorry about that; technology defeated me. I am speaking to you today as the Chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Network of Election Observers. Over the past year, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe carried out 10 pre-election and election observation missions in four member states: North Macedonia, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova, and Georgia, with 64 Assembly members from 28 countries taking part. Our longstanding... 03/10/2024 | 10:22:44 Mister MORRIS, I am delighted to see you in the chair for this important debate. This is an excellent report by Mr Knut ABRAHAM and very ably presented by my colleague Lord Richard KEEN. Of course, Vladimir PUTIN denies that the Holodomor ever happened. That's just another PUTIN lie, just as he says that Ukraine invaded Russia, not the other way around. As this excellent report makes clear, the Soviet Union always claimed that the famine was just an act of God affecting the whole of Russia...
08/04/2025 | Doc. 16151 | Report The arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul and the state of democracy and human rights in Türkiye 31/03/2021 | Doc. 15253 | Report Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus
08/10/2024 | Doc. 16063 | Motion for a resolution The situation of Ukrainian soldiers who became disabled as a result of hostilities 01/10/2024 | Doc. 16051 | Motion for a resolution Violations of media freedom and the right to information in Poland 03/07/2024 | Doc. 16022 | Motion for a resolution Georgian law on "foreign influence" 02/07/2024 | Doc. 15962 | Written declaration Appeal to the United States Congress 15/04/2024 | Doc. 15962 | Written declaration Appeal to the United States Congress
09/04/2025 | Doc. 16151, vote on the draft text for resolution The arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul and the state of democracy and human rights in Türkiye 27/01/2025 | Doc. 16086, vote on the draft text for resolution Progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure (January – December 2024) 03/10/2024 | Doc. 16028, vote on the draft text for resolution Commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor – Ukraine once again faces the threat of genocide 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16040, vote on the draft text for resolution The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16039, vote on the draft text for resolution The honouring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina