Substitute
Deputy
Labour
House of Commons
GB - SW1A OAA - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
Declarations of interests:
2026
, 2025
, 2024
Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)
01/10/2026 | 18:54:26 Thank you. I thank Mr Georgios STAMATIS for his report, which I think links the private choices that each couple and family makes with the demographic change that Europe is experiencing and the collective good. I don't think that the answer to the problem is increased immigration, while I recognise the benefits that immigration brings to my country. I was recently in Nigeria where they asked us to please stop stealing their health workers. It is indeed that we need to make better family life... 01/10/2026 | 17:50:47 Thank you. Can I thank everybody who's spoken in favour of this report? I want to address one or two of the criticisms, which seem to rest on this idea that these charges are genuinely around obscenity. The problem with obscenity is it's a subjective term, but if you find it obscene that people love each other, that they have relationships, that's a problem. I've been accused of being led by ideology. That's not true. I'm led by the evidence before us. And the evidence before us is of... 01/10/2026 | 17:04:44 Thank you. This resolution describes an immediate, co-ordinated and escalating campaign of rights violations against LGBT+ persons, their defenders and civil society organisations in Türkiye. It is held under the urgent procedure of this Assembly to call for immediate actions to end repression and violence and uphold fundamental rights and human dignity of people who identify as LGBTI+ and their defenders. The danger, if we fail to act now, is that the repression of recent weeks becomes more... 30/09/2026 | 19:13:49 Thank you. And I'd like to commend my fellow United Kingdom (UK) colleague, rapporteur Mr Tony VAUGHAN, for bringing his legal experience, but also his humanity, to preparing this timely and practical report. For time I won't list all of Russia's crimes. This whole Assembly knows them. They include rape, torture, mass killing, child kidnapping. Crimes that are unprecedented in the history of this institution. We should be clear about what's at stake. Russia's repeated refusal to comply with... 25/06/2026 | 10:49:27 Thank you. I wanted to address some comments in response to what we heard from our colleague from Belgium, but I see he's no longer here. But I was shocked by the way that he demonised migrants in a way that I've not heard in this continent for 80 years. I thought we defeated that ideology. My country has a warm tradition of welcoming migrants. They serve in our armed forces, they treat us in our National Health Service, they build our buildings, they set up shops. My own wife is a migrant to...
29/09/2026 | Doc. 16499 | Report Repression and targeted attacks on LGBTI persons and defenders in Türkiye
30/09/2026 | Doc. 16501 | Written declaration State glorification of convicted war criminals: the funeral of Ratko Mladić 25/06/2026 | Doc. 16453 | Motion for a resolution Towards a European strategy on arbitrary detention and hostage‑taking of European and dual‑national citizens 22/04/2026 | Doc. 16390 | Motion for a resolution Addressing the issue of drug facilitated sexual violence and the online platforms used by perpetrators
01/10/2026 | Doc. 16493, vote on the draft text for resolution Europe, the fastest-warming continent: accelerating climate action with young people 01/10/2026 | Doc. 16493, vote on the draft text for recommendation Europe, the fastest-warming continent: accelerating climate action with young people 01/10/2026 | Doc. 16499, vote on the draft text for resolution Repression and targeted attacks on LGBTI persons and defenders in Türkiye 01/10/2026 | Doc. 16477, vote on the draft text for resolution Towards a family-friendly Europe: policy recommendations for demographic renewal 30/09/2026 | Doc. 16468, vote on the draft text for recommendation Growing threats to media pluralism and the independence of the media