Speech given in House of Lords China Debate: October 20th.

Speech given in House of Lords China Debate: October 20th.

https://youtu.be/ca5GQduSrZc Speech given in China Debate: October 20th. I declare my interests as VC of the All-Party Groups on Uyghurs and Hong Kong. I am a Patron of Hong Kong Watch and a member of the Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China. Notwithstanding...

“Whose side are we on, the slaves or the slave drivers?”

“Whose side are we on, the slaves or the slave drivers?”

Today I asked whether the Government had taken note of the all party amendment passed on Tuesday night urging more concerted action in dealing with companies and countries banned in jurisdictions of our closest allies and tainted by everything from genocide to slave...

Book to read: “The Order Of The Day” by Eric Vuillard. The Reich’s concentration camps: the corporations which benefited and the politicians who didn’t give a tinker’s damn. Chilling parallels with Uyghur slave labour.

Book to read: “The Order Of The Day” by Eric Vuillard. The Reich’s concentration camps: the corporations which benefited and the politicians who didn’t give a tinker’s damn. Chilling parallels with Uyghur slave labour.

Book to read: “The Order Of The Day” by Eric Vuillard. The corporations which benefited from the Reich’s concentration camps - and the politicians - didn’t give a tinker’s damn about incarcerated Jews, or to the annexation of Austria. Chilling parallels with Uyghur...

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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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