Representative
Member of the House of Lords
Labour
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
29/01/2025 | 17:18:19 President, I believe that this is a very important issue, and a decision to approve or not approve the delegation credentials from Georgia should not be taken lightly. These past days, I've listened to arguments on both sides, and as a rule, I'm a person who believes it's better that people are in rather than have them out. But having met representatives of Georgian opposition groups and also listened to the report from my colleague Lord David BLENCATHRA, who is an observer at the Georgian... 01/10/2024 | 16:33:17 President, few of us sitting in this Chamber today would disagree that our most precious gifts are our children. They're our future. We love them, we cherish them, we care for them. And yet countless numbers of refugee and migrant children go missing across Europe every year. As Mr Julian PAHLKE points out in his report, his excellent report, all too often, the plight of these missing children goes unreported, while their vulnerability and exploitation to abuse by criminals is extremely high... 01/10/2024 | 13:03:13 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Our best defence against the enemies of freedom and free speech is our free press. I spent 27 years of my life working in newspapers and in those three decades I saw more and more challenges to that freedom. And now another three decades further on, I see governments around the world including some phere too in Europe, controlling and wanting to control the press. State actors are investing heavily in the media in order to own and control it... 26/06/2024 | 12:52:58 Colleagues, Vladimir Putin's act of aggression against Ukraine has not been witnessed in Europe since the early part of the last century. The invasion of Ukraine followed the most duplicitous act when Putin declared he had no intention of attacking that country almost at the time his troops crossed the border. The free and democratic nations of Europe must stand with the Ukrainian people against this aggression – this tyranny. A tyranny which has taken a free, liberated, newly democratic and... 25/06/2024 | 13:11:08 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) My friend and colleague and a greatly valued member of this Assembly—the late Baroness Doreen Massey—was a passionate advocate of involving young people in the work of this body. When I first became a member of this Council of Europe in November 2017, Doreen took me under her wing and she became my mentor. We had much in common in that we were both strongly argued that we had a duty to hand on the values of this Council of Europe to the young...
14/01/2020 | Doc. 15032 | Committee Opinion Missing refugee and migrant children in Europe
06/02/2025 | Doc. 16115 | Motion for a resolution The deterioration of women's rights in Afghanistan: a need for global response 30/01/2025 | Doc. 16110 | Motion for a resolution Protecting ethnic and religious diversity in Syria 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16108 | Motion for a resolution Role of the Parliamentary Assembly and National Parliaments in implementing the outcome of the 2024 Summit of the Future 02/07/2024 | Doc. 15969 | Written declaration Democratic remembrance in Spain and respect for the victims of Franco’s regime 16/04/2024 | Doc. 15969 | Written declaration Democratic remembrance in Spain and respect for the victims of Franco’s regime
30/01/2025 | Doc. 16102, vote on the draft text for opinion Opinion on a draft convention for the protection of the profession of lawyer 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16104, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16072, vote on the draft text for resolution Immigration, one of the answers to Europe's demographic ageing 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16093, vote on the draft text for resolution The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza 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