Extract from Lords debate
on the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit
(CB):My Lords, I
remember when my father was posted as a lieutenant-colonel from the
Indian Army to the British Army in Warminster, Wiltshire, seeing
the Troubles as a young boy living among soldiers. I then went back
to school and to university in India, and came back for my higher
education here in the UK. In 1982, just as I was about to move into
the International Students House in Regent’s Park, there was a
tragic attack on our soldiers there. As an Indian coming over here,
I have witnessed and felt the Troubles as a young boy and a
student.
Later on, I had the privilege of going to Northern Ireland with
the UK-India talks and seeing it on the ground after the Good
Friday agreement. Anyone who goes to Belfast today will see the
high fences and barriers that still exist, in spite of that
agreement. The Good Friday agreement was precious. The noble
Lord, , who is not in his place, won
a Nobel Peace Prize for it. We are grateful to everyone involved
who enabled what is now an amazing 20-year-old peace process to
have happened. What is happening today? For the sake of something
called Brexit, we are threatening the very union and the very
peace of the United Kingdom. At the heart of the Good Friday
agreement was north-south co-operation and east-west
co-operation—they were absolutely interlinked...
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Extract from Business
Questions
Ian C. Lucas (Wrexham) (Lab): May we have an
urgent debate on predatory business takeovers? Until yesterday,
constituents of mine had been taking forward a business called
DTCC—originally called Avox—for 10 years, but a company called
Refinitiv has taken over the business, immediately making 300
people redundant and offshoring the jobs to India. May we have an
urgent discussion about appalling business practices that put
people on the scrapheap when they have worked so hard for so many
years?
: I am sorry to hear
about the company in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency. The
situation is worrying, and I encourage him to take the matter up
directly with Ministers from the Department for Business, Energy
and Industrial Strategy at BEIS questions next Tuesday to hear
what more they can do to help support those who have been told
that they are losing their jobs.
Extract from
Westminster Hall debate on Freeports
(Cleethorpes)
(Con):...Cleethorpes, Grimsby and Immingham make up the
North East Lincolnshire Council area, which voted 70% for Brexit.
As one of the MPs for that area, I am determined to press the
Government on every possible occasion to ensure that what those
people voted for is delivered. A freeports policy would instantly
end the criticism that the Brexit decision was about being little
England. This is an opportunity to broaden our
trading capacity and look to the growing
economies in India, China, the far east, South
America and so on, rather than solely focus on the EU economies,
which are static at best...
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