30/09/2026 | 10:24:41 Mister President, At the heart of our Conservative philosophy lies a fundamental truth. A society cannot remain truly free without absolute protection of free speech and a fiercely independent press. For centuries, the right to speak, to challenge power and to debate openly has been the bedrock of Western civilisation. Yet today, this fundamental liberty is facing a quiet but dangerous erosion. We are witnessing the rise of a new orthodoxy, often driven by political correctness and woke... 29/09/2026 | 17:30:20 Mister Chair, Our soldiers are sent into impossible, high-stakes environments to protect us from very real threats to our society. They have to make split-second life-or-death decisions in the fog of war, facing enemies who often wear no uniforms and certainly respect no laws. We must learn from mistakes of the past to ensure that we do not fail our own service members. Now we've seen this issue play out in the United Kingdom, where decades after the troubles in Northern Ireland, elderly... 28/09/2026 | 16:11:48 Madam Chairman, Naturally, I'm neutral in terms of Armenian politics, and naturally, I echo what has already been said in this debate in condemning any outside interference. But I want to talk about this election in Armenia in the context of the attitude of the present government of Armenia to the Armenian Apostolic Church. It's the oldest national church in the world. It's facing an unprecedented threat, not from an external invader, but from the government itself. And under the leadership... 24/06/2026 | 12:23:34 Madam President, Before this debate started, like others, I asked artificial intelligence (AI) to write my speech, and I have to say, it was not full of far-right hatred. It was sort of full of the sort of boring, consensual, liberal socialist rubbish that we hear from this Assembly all along. AI is no threat to democracy. We've heard all this about new technology again and again. There's an expression in English, "Luddite". You know, when the steam engine was introduced in England in the... 23/06/2026 | 18:37:02 Mister President, We've had a most powerful debate so far and a very moving one, starting with the personal testimony of Mr Jacques PARIS and the appalling treatment that he has received from this regime. An entirely innocent man. And I think we're uniting this chamber. For instance, I congratulate my socialist colleague Mr Tony VAUGHAN from the British Labour Party, who gave a most powerful speech, and my colleague, Mr Markus WIECHEL from Sweden. We're all completely united in defending... 22/04/2026 | 18:59:31 Madam President, Today we speak the name of Mr Sergei MAGNITSKY not simply to remember a tragedy, but to recognise what one individual can represent in the face of a corrupt system. He was not a politician. He was not a public figure. He was an ordinary man who, when confronted with extraordinary wrongdoing, chose to act with courage. For that, he paid the ultimate price, leaving behind a wife and two children and a story that might easily have been buried – but it was not. His legacy did not... 22/04/2026 | 11:23:02 ...to protect women and call out violence against it, but we should be courageous as well. We should not be afraid of calling out the grooming of young girls, forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation, because we are worried about being accused of being racist. We have to protect all women and speak up for traditional European values of respect for women. There are serious questions, it has to be said, about the Istanbul Convention. Is gender a social construct? Should we... 21/04/2026 | 18:10:14 Thank you, Madam President. Of course, we all believe in freedom of religion. I personally, and none of us here, would attack any person's religious belief. Nobody would do something so outrageous as to burn the Koran or anything like that, or to criticise Islam, but having said that, we have to fight for freedom of expression. The truth is that I'm a Catholic. The overwhelming prejudice, martyrdoms, attacks on people around the world are because they are Christian. People feel it, even in... 21/04/2026 | 11:03:55 Mister Chairman, I would like to start by paying tribute to my murdered friend, Mr David AMESS. His only crime was to attend a surgery to look after his own constituents, and he was stabbed to death by an Islamist extremist. He had made no criticism of Islam. He spent most of his political career actually defending the rights of animals. And for that crime, he was murdered, ruthlessly and horribly. So this is an important debate. And we should call out hatred wherever it is found. It gives... 20/04/2026 | 16:38:02 You know perfectly well, Mister Minister, that there is no effective deterrent against the boats crossing the Channel. Dozens are dying every year. Successive British governments have begged you to be fraternal and to take back these migrants when they are picked up in Dover. You have refused to do so. Your policemen stand on the beach and watch these people wading out the boats. They do nothing. Is it because you want to offload these migrants onto Great Britain? Do you want to have more of...