International Relations and Defence CommitteeDefence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to reality Wednesday 22 June 2022 Air Marshal Edward Stringer, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (2015-18), Director-General of Joint Force Development (2018-21)Lord...

China has a clear strategy of promoting dependency, undermining resilience and security – Questions to the Government.
Today I pressed the U.K. Government to recognise that the CCP has a clear strategy of promoting dependency, undermining resilience and security, acquiring intellectual property and data, and destroying competitiveness through slave labour in a State accused of...

Asia Minister says that the arrest of Fung Wai-Kong, a former senior editorial writer for newspaper Apple Daily, before he boarded a flight to the United Kingdom is “in clear breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration.”
Asia Minister responds to questions about travel advice to Hong Kong and says that "the UK Government is monitoring closely the implementation of the Immigration (Amendment) Bill." And says that the arrest of Fung Wai-Kong, a former senior editorial writer for...

UK Government says what assessment they have made of (1) the potential for the government of China’s national security law to prevent the departure of citizens from Hong Kong, and (2) the implications of that law for UK citizens and holders of British National (Overseas) passports.
UK Government says what assessment they have made of (1) the potential for the government of China's national security law to prevent the departure of citizens from Hong Kong, and (2) the implications of that law for UK citizens and holders of British...

For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Lord Alton – Borders Bill – 26th June 2025.
Lord Alton made a speech on the Borders Bill urging Government to tackle the root causes of mass migration and displacement and to hit the smuggling gangs while upholding our obligation to protect the vulnerable. https://youtu.be/HLVBKjHRRpo Lord Alton of...
APPG for Pakistani Minorities Welcomes Historic Passage of Child Marriage Restraint Act 2025
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE31 May 2025 APPG for Pakistani Minorities Welcomes Historic Passage of Child Marriage Restraint Act 2025 London, UK — The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities warmly welcomes the signing of the Islamabad...
My analysis today for @GIS_Reports of the geopolitical role of the papacy-why Pope Leo needs to reassess the Vatican’s embrace of the CCP-which commits genocide, persecutes religion, imprisons political dissenters, uses slave labour, tramples on human rights – and why, Hong Kong’s Venerable Cardinal, Joseph Zen, warned the Conclave’s voting Cardinals to avoid the whiff of red smoke.
My analysis today for @GIS_Reports of the geopolitical role of the papacy-why Pope Leo needs to reassess the Vatican's embrace of the CCP-which commits genocide, persecutes religion, imprisons political dissenters, uses slave labour, tramples on human rights - and why...