Representative
Deputy
Liberal Democrat
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)
22/06/2026 | 17:21:28 Thank you, Chair, for the opportunity to speak about this. I was proud to serve as part of the Assembly's election observation mission in Hungary. And my thanks go to Mr Pablo HISPÁN for leading the mission so ably. In Budapest, alongside colleagues from across Europe, I saw something powerful: long queues, busy polling stations and citizens determined to use their vote. In some areas, turnout was extraordinary. The atmosphere in many polling stations was positive and even hopeful. I was... 02/10/2025 | 17:09:22 Thank you, Mister President. Friends, this report arrives not a moment too soon. Across our continent, faith in political parties is crumbling. Membership rolls are emptying. Foreign cash and online lies poison our debates. Populists feast on public cynicism. But here's the truth – democracy simply cannot work without robust, transparent politics. This resolution makes the case clearly: parties aren't museum pieces gathering dust. They're the living, breathing institutions that connect... 01/10/2025 | 19:10:20 Thank you, Chair. This is a decisive moment. The Council of Europe was absolutely right to expel the Russian Federation – but that cannot be where our responsibility ends. In the last decade, we have witnessed the assassinations of Alexei NAVALNY and Boris NEMTSOV. We've seen opposition politicians locked away, threatened and intimidated. Every day brings fresh reports of journalists silenced, activists disappeared. This is the brutal cost of standing up to Vladimir PUTIN's regime. Yet still... 01/10/2025 | 13:02:56 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Serbia stands at a crossroads – and frankly, it's heading in the wrong direction. For ten months now, Serbian citizens have taken to the streets. Students leading the charge, demanding justice, transparency, and an end to the corruption corroding their country. The spark was the tragedy in Novi Sad – sixteen people killed when a railway station roof collapsed, a roof that had supposedly just been renovated. That disaster laid bare the rotten... 10/04/2025 | 11:31:58 Today, Georgia finds itself at a crossroads, not between East and West, but between democracy and authoritarianism. What was once a beacon of democratic hope in the region is now veering dangerously off course. The 2024 elections, which should have been an opportunity to reaffirm Georgia's democratic commitments, have instead revealed a stark and troubling truth. The Georgian Dream (GD) government is systematically dismantling the very democracy it claims to uphold. The evidence is not vague...
23/04/2026 | Doc. 16396 | Motion for a resolution Fictional justice under occupation: a pseudo-legal system as an instrument of repression 21/04/2026 | Doc. 16386 | Written declaration Vladimir Putin's Russia should not be allowed to the Venice Biennale 20/02/2026 | Doc. 16348 | Motion for a resolution Towards a Euro-Atlantic strategy for the Arctic in support of the rules-based international order 01/10/2025 | Doc. 16274 | Motion for a resolution Restricting citizenship rules: social cohesion and human rights at stake 01/10/2025 | Doc. 16276 | Written declaration The planned destruction of more than US $9.7 million worth of contraceptives has to be halted immediately
23/06/2026 | Doc. 16424, vote on the draft text for resolution The functioning of democratic institutions in Serbia 23/06/2026 | Doc. 16413, vote on the draft text for resolution Democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Iran 22/04/2026 | Doc. 16370, vote on the draft text for resolution Paving the way for a culture of consent 22/04/2026 | Doc. 16372, vote on the draft text for resolution Promoting the Istanbul Convention and improving its implementation: building on lessons learnt 02/10/2025 | Doc. 16272, vote on the draft text for resolution Russia: new threats to European democracies