Speeches by Morello.

“I thank the hon. Member for the opportunity to clarify my point. It is not about whether the consumer pays; it is about whether the airports are using the revenue they claim they are generating to support climate policies for that purpose, or whether it is simply another revenue stream for them. Airports and providers …”

“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…”

“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…”

“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?”

“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…”

“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 …”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“I congratulate my constituency neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Adam Dance), on securing this important urgent question. Leonardo may be based in Yeovil, but many of its 3,000 employees live in my West Dorset constituency, which is why, when I was elected, one of the first meetings I had was with Leonar…”

“Does that committee meet regularly?”

“I am just wondering if it raises any difficulties for the British Government, in terms of our co-operation with the US, to have a NATO ally overtly threatening the sovereign territory of another NATO ally to which we are also aligned.”