Extract from Commons
urgent question on Appointment of Sir Roger Scruton
(Denton and Reddish)
(Lab):...When was the Secretary of State made aware that
Sir Roger heaped praise on Hungary’s Viktor Orbán at the height
of his truly hateful, state-orchestrated, antisemitic campaign
against George Soros, and that he stated in a lecture in Hungary
that Jewish intelligentsia
“form part of the…Soros empire”?
We also know from reports in the Huffington
Post today that Sir Roger Scruton spoke favourably of
the National Front, calling it an “egalitarian” movement. Is this
acceptable in the Secretary of State’s eyes?
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Extract from oral
answer (Lords) on First World War Commemoration:
Pakistan
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of
Housing, Communities and Local Government and Wales Office (Lord
Bourne of Aberystwyth) (Con): My Lords, throughout the
centenary the Government have focused on ensuring that
communities commemorate the contribution made by men and women
from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe. Our projects
have highlighted the lesser-known stories and voices of
servicemen and women whose contribution is rarely acknowledged.
The battlefields in France and Belgium saw Muslims, Hindus,
Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Jains, Baha’is and people of all faiths and
none, fall side by side with their Christian and Jewish comrades
on the fields where they fought and died together...
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