Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Venezuela: Political Situation - Sep 5

Graham Jones (Hyndburn) (Lab): ...As I said, I am grateful for this opportunity to speak on the situation in Venezuela. Latin America is an area of the world where Britain has a myopic view—partly due to the continent’s Spanish and Portuguese colonial past—and its own sense of history in relation to those two European nations and, of course, the Vatican. It is in British interests that there is a change of outlook on south America, Latin America and Venezuela, particularly given our exit from the European Union and the need to build new international bridges. Latin America is an important part of the planet that we should be mindful of in protecting the wellbeing of this fragile place that we all inhabit. I appreciate that our south American relationships have been somewhat skewed—rightly so, in my opinion—in terms of protecting the UK sovereignty of the Falkland Islands...

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