Desmond Swayne MP: speeches

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23 Jul 2024 · Immigration and Home Affairs · Hansard source
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That is absolutely right, but we did not do that. We did not spend our money in that way. We supported people under desperate regimes, not by giving money to those regimes but by providing sustenance through third parties and NGOs, which delivered that. Some of the greatest damage done by much of our own press was how our international development aid effort was painted as destructive in the way that was just described. It never was. I return to my original point: we cannot take everybody, and we certainly needed somewhere else where they could have gone. Rwanda struck me as somewhere that that possibility could blossom.
22 Jul 2024 · NATO and European Political Community Meetings · Hansard source
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Why do we continue to limit Ukraine’s ability to take the fight to Russia?

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