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John McDonnell’s contribution to debate on Kurdistan region of Iraq

We are here as friends of Kurdistan, but candid friends of Kurdistan. Over the years, I have worked with the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees—Dashty Jamal, in particular, as we are naming people. In my area, the Kurdish community stems from the 1980s, and particularly a group of Kurdish students…

Seasons Best wishes and Newsletter

Dear Friend I send you all and your family my best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. I wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas. Let’s all hope that peace can be achieved for all the families but especially in Ukraine and Gaza and the West Bank, where so…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the debate on Arms Export Licences: Israel

Lots of people want to speak, so I will be as brief as possible. I want to ask a number of questions, but I will just say as a preface that when someone has been in this House long enough and sat through the discussions about the various wars taking…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the debate on tackling Islamophobia

I want briefly to raise a few points about my constituency. I have a multicultural constituency. It has been a migrant community for more than a hundred years, and there is a sizeable Muslim community. In fact, I helped establish the first mosque—the Islamic centre in the centre of Hayes—30…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the debate on the Victims and Prisoners Bill

I rise to speak to new clause 1, and new clauses 2 and 3 in my name. When we talk about victims, it is important that we also discuss taking responsibility for the victims of Parliament’s activities, and some of the victims of Parliament’s activities are the IPP—imprisonment for public…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Sri Lankan Tamils and Human Rights Debate

I congratulate the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day) not only on securing the debate, but on setting the scene so well. Briefly, I want to ask the question: how many more times will we have to come here and debate this issue before the UK plays…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the debate on the Autumn Statement

Mr Deputy Speaker, you and I have been here for a couple of decades, and I have never known a second-day debate on an autumn statement to involve only one Government Back Bencher. The emptiness of the Chamber reflects that we are at the fag end of this Government, and…

John McDonnells contribution to the Kings Speech debate – Breaking Down Barriers to opportunity

I fear that the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Shakespeare, the hon. Member for Halesowen and Rowley Regis (James Morris), has opened a can of worms with his quotations. I hate to say this, but most of us feel that yesterday was Much Ado About Nothing. In fact,…

Labour’s response to the crisis in Gaza is a test of whether it’s fit to govern

Guardian opinion 3.11.23 John McDonnell The degeneration of the Conservative party under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – corrupt, incompetent and irrelevant – looks increasingly certain to deliver an electoral victory for Labour. So, the question now is whether Labour is capable of effective government – not just…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Economic Activities of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I echo the comments of my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Dame Margaret Hodge)? If we descend into accusations that those who do not support the Bill are antisemites, or that those who support it are Islamophobic, I think we are lost,…

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