25/06/2025 | 11:25:06 Thank you. Sport, as we all know, has the power to promote health and fitness, to teach our children values like hard work, fairness, teamwork, humility, and has the power to bring people together, to build up friendships across divides, and to unify nations. As we saw when South Africa hosted the 1995 World Cup, or indeed the Christmas Day truce football match during the First World War, we've seen how sport can be a platform for promoting equal rights, such as Tommie SMITH and John CARLOS... 24/06/2025 | 17:24:13 Thank you. We assemble today, parliamentarians from across Europe, in an institution founded in the aftermath of world war, to defend democracy, the rule of law and respect of human rights. After decades of progress and flourishing, the clouds of war have again descended on Europe, including the most egregious of crimes, and the world has been reordered beneath our feet. Just a year ago, it was unthinkable that we would see the USA adopt a neutral position on Russian aggression against a... 10/04/2025 | 16:44:52 Thank you. It’s impossible to speak of Gaza without paying respects to those who lost their lives or were taken hostage in Hamas’ genocidal attack on Israel. I have seen the burned-out remains of a family home whose occupants were killed that day, and stood at the Nova Festival site, where beautiful young people were slaughtered, where they had gathered to dance. And I have met with the brave families of hostages, who continue to campaign for peace. I join their call to “bring them home”. The... 08/04/2025 | 20:20:45 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) We have heard examples of those on the right, who tap into people’s insecurities on immigration and lure them with fake solutions to complex challenges. This report calls for tough measures, warning against those who invoke exceptions to human rights on the pretext of “necessity”. The enormous incrase in asylum seekers in the UK under the late Conservative government is a cautionary tale to beware of easy answers. When they took office in...