Speeches by Morello.

“We have seen reports about the US suspending the technology prosperity deal with the UK in an effort to force the Government to accept lower-standard imports in order to secure a trade deal with the US. Does my hon. Friend agree that these bully-boy tactics by the Trump Administration should not be kowtowed to, and we …”

“Q The Secretary of State will still have to sign off that loop, though. Keith Williams: They will still have to sign it off, but hopefully they will leave it to the people who know what needs doing to do it.”

“Q On accountability, both this panel and the previous one have talked about the benefits of having a single business unit or chief executive responsible for both track and train. I accept the logic of that and the point that there are mechanisms for local communities and passenger groups to interact with that business …”

“The post-war world order was based on the premise that like-minded western liberal democracies would stand up for each other, expand democracy wherever we saw it and lower the barriers to free trade, and that through NATO we would engage in collective responsibility—an attack against one was an attack against all. It i…”

“Over the last 24 years, 174 grassroots rugby clubs have disappeared. Such clubs are vital and feed our professional teams with talent and fans. While attendance and broadcast figures are improving at the top level, Premiership clubs still owe the Government massive amounts of money in covid loans and carry £340 million…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Mr Dillon) on securing this debate. Per mile travelled, rural roads account for over 60% of all UK road deaths. Last year, I met a group of constituents who keep their horses in stables in the Forston area. They are experienced riders, and they described repeated ne…”

“It is a source none the less. That places even greater importance on AR8. I hope that the Government will commit to their timetable to open AR8 by the summer and to announce the results by the end of the year. Meanwhile, there is still work to be done to bring down bills for working families and businesses, which is wh…”

“I welcome the results of the AR7 allocation. This is about protecting working families from volatile fossil fuel prices set by foreign powers that have repeatedly used oil and gas as geopolitical weapons. Relying on Trump’s America or Putin’s Russia to keep the lights on puts us all at risk. Renewable energy is the che…”

“To follow up on that, the Committee has seen or heard evidence of foreign actors deliberately amplifying messages designed to break down social cohesion. Sometimes those are messages by political individuals or political parties. From the point of view of the Electoral Commission, if a foreign actor is deliberately usi…”

“We also heard from colleagues of yours in Moldova about quite sophisticated vote-buying efforts and the use of illicit finance, especially funnelling through cryptocurrency. Could you give us some more details of how that played out in Moldova?”

“When the Committee was in Moldova and Romania, we heard quite a lot of evidence about concerted efforts to undermine confidence in Government institutions, not just during the election, but in the run-up and years beforehand. A lot of that was focused on the electoral commission and electoral process. Could you talk a …”

“But they might not be permissible.”

“To take a development that has happened in the US, if a politician—it would not be me because I would not know how to do it—or a political party set up a memecoin, for example, how would that sit within the existing regulatory framework? If anyone could purchase that, then am I having to look at where those purchases a…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. I congratulate the hon. Member for Bolton South and Walkden (Yasmin Qureshi) on securing this important debate. What should be a simple act of kindness—giving someone a lift to an airport, as we have all done—is increasingly being met with extortionate airport char…”

“Yesterday, the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy was taking evidence on crypto, foreign donations and crypto donations. It became clear through the evidence that an ecosystem is required in order to scrutinise this—you touched on some of it, such as the FCA or the potential for only using UK-regist…”

“I also do not want us to have to get to a point where we have a suspended election in order to decide that now is the time to start acting. This is what has happened in other countries.”

“We visited your opposite number in Romania, and they took us through in great detail—probably too much detail—the process that they had established during the election to deal with predominantly TikTok accounts. Something was flagged to them, which was the first thing. It was entirely passive. What you are talking abou…”

“But they might not be permissible.”

“To follow up on that, the Committee has seen or heard evidence of foreign actors deliberately amplifying messages designed to break down social cohesion. Sometimes those are messages by political individuals or political parties. From the point of view of the Electoral Commission, if a foreign actor is deliberately usi…”

“To take a development that has happened in the US, if a politician—it would not be me because I would not know how to do it—or a political party set up a memecoin, for example, how would that sit within the existing regulatory framework? If anyone could purchase that, then am I having to look at where those purchases a…”