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takes them back into slavery. Order.
Statement. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:09 | |
First and, to pay tribute to the
professionalism of all the doctors, | 0:00:24 | 0:00:29 | |
nurses and investigation team to
have led the response to this | 0:00:29 | 0:00:33 | |
incident and the fortitude of the
people of Salisbury and let me | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
reassure them that as Public Health
England have made clear, the ongoing | 0:00:36 | 0:00:40 | |
risk to public health is low and the
Government will continue to do | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
everything possible to support this
historic city to recover fully. Mr | 0:00:44 | 0:00:49 | |
Speaker, on Monday I set out that
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were | 0:00:49 | 0:00:55 | |
poisoned with a military grade nerve
agent developed by Russia. Based on | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
this capability, combined with their
record of conducting state-sponsored | 0:00:59 | 0:01:05 | |
assassinations, including against
former intelligence officers whom | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
they regard as legitimate targets,
the UK Government concluded that it | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
was highly likely that Russia was
responsible for this reckless and | 0:01:12 | 0:01:17 | |
despicable act. And there were only
too plausible explanations. Either | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
this was a direct act by the Russian
state against our country or | 0:01:21 | 0:01:26 | |
conceivably the Russian Government
could have lost control of a | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
military grade nerve agent and
allowed it to get into the hands of | 0:01:28 | 0:01:37 | |
others. Mr Speaker, it was right to
offer Russia the opportunity to | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
provide an explanation but their
response has demonstrated complete | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
disdain by the gravity of these
events. They have provided no | 0:01:41 | 0:01:47 | |
credible explanation that could
suggest they lost control of that | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
nerve agent. No explanation as to
how this agent came to be used in | 0:01:51 | 0:01:56 | |
the United Kingdom. No explanation
as to why Russia has an undeclared | 0:01:56 | 0:02:03 | |
chemical weapons programme in
contravention of international law. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
Instead, they have treated the use
of a military grade nerve agent in | 0:02:07 | 0:02:12 | |
Europe with sarcasm, contempt and
defiance. So, Mr Speaker, there is | 0:02:12 | 0:02:19 | |
no alternative conclusion other than
that the Russian state was culpable | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
for the attempted murder of Sergei
Skripal and his daughter, and for | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
threatening the lives of other
British citizens in Salisbury, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:31 | |
including Detective Sergeant Nick
Bailey. This presents an unlawful | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
use of force by the Russian state
against the United Kingdom. And as I | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
set out on Monday, it has taken
place against the backdrop of a | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
well-established pattern of Russian
state aggression across Europe and | 0:02:42 | 0:02:47 | |
beyond. It must therefore be met
with a full and robust response | 0:02:47 | 0:02:53 | |
beyond the actions we have already
taken since the murder of Mr | 0:02:53 | 0:03:00 | |
Litvinenko and to counter this
pattern of Russian aggression | 0:03:00 | 0:03:01 | |
elsewhere. As a discussion in this
House made clear, it is essential we | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
must now come together with our
allies to defend our security, to | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
stand up for our values, to send a
clear message to those who would | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
seek to undermine them. This morning
I chaired a further meeting with the | 0:03:13 | 0:03:20 | |
National Security Council, where we
agreed immediate actions to | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
dismantle the Russian espionage
network in the UK, urgent work to | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
develop new powers to tackle all
forms of hostile state activity, and | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
to ensure that those seeking to
carry out such activity cannot enter | 0:03:30 | 0:03:35 | |
the UK, and additional steps to
suspend all planned high-level | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
contacts between the United Kingdom
and the Russian Federation. Let me | 0:03:38 | 0:03:42 | |
start with the immediate actions. Mr
Speaker, the house will recall that | 0:03:42 | 0:03:48 | |
following the murder of Mr
Litvinenko, the UK expelled for | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
diplomats. Under the Vienna
Convention, the United Kingdom will | 0:03:52 | 0:03:59 | |
now expel 23 Russian diplomats who
have been identified as undeclared | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
intelligence officers. They have
just one week to leave. This will be | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
the single biggest expulsion for
over 30 years and it reflects the | 0:04:08 | 0:04:12 | |
fact that this is not the first time
that the Russian state has acted | 0:04:12 | 0:04:15 | |
against our country. Through these
expulsions, we will fundamentally | 0:04:15 | 0:04:21 | |
degrade Russian intelligence
capability in the UK for years to | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
come. And if they seek to rebuild
it, we will prevent them from doing | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
so. Second, we will urgently develop
proposals for new legislative powers | 0:04:28 | 0:04:34 | |
to harden our defences against all
forms of hostile state activity. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
This will include the addition of a
targeted power to detain those | 0:04:38 | 0:04:43 | |
suspected of hostile state activity
at the UK border. This power is | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
currently only permitted in relation
to those suspected of terrorism. And | 0:04:46 | 0:04:52 | |
I have asked the Home Secretary to
consider whether there is a need for | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
a new counterespionage powers to
clamp down on the full spectrum of | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
hostile activities of foreign agents
in our country. Mr Speaker, as I set | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
out on Monday, we will also table a
Government amendment to the | 0:05:04 | 0:05:09 | |
sanctions bill to strengthen our
powers to impose sanctions in | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
response to the violation of human
rights. In doing so, we will play | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
our part in international effort to
punish those responsible for the | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
sorts of abuses suffered by
surrogate Magnitsky. And I hope as | 0:05:19 | 0:05:25 | |
with all the measures I'm up today
that this book the manned | 0:05:25 | 0:05:31 | |
cross-party support. Mr Speaker, we
will also make full use of existing | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
powers to enhance our efforts to
monitor and track the intentions of | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
those travelling to the UK who could
be engaged in activity that | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
threatens the security of the UK and
our allies. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:49 | |
Will freeze the freeze Russian state
assets wherever we have the evidence | 0:05:49 | 0:05:54 | |
that they may be used to threaten
the life or property of UK nationals | 0:05:54 | 0:06:00 | |
or residents, and led by the
National Crime Agency we will | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
continue to bring all of the
capabilities of UK law enforcement | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
to bear against serious criminals
and corrupt elites. There is no | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
place for these people or their
money in our country. Mr Speaker, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
let me be clear. While our response
must be robust, it must also remain | 0:06:14 | 0:06:19 | |
true to our values as a liberal
democracy that believes in the rule | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
of law. Many Russians have made this
country go home, abide by our laws | 0:06:22 | 0:06:29 | |
and make an important contribution
to our country, which we must | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
continue to welcome. But to those
who seek to do us harm, my message | 0:06:32 | 0:06:37 | |
is simple. You are not welcome here.
Let me turn to our bilateral | 0:06:37 | 0:06:43 | |
relationship. As I said on Monday,
we have had a very simple approach | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
to Russia, engaged but beware. And I
continue to believe it is not in our | 0:06:47 | 0:06:52 | |
national interests to break off all
dialogue between United Kingdom and | 0:06:52 | 0:06:56 | |
the Russian Federation. But in the
aftermath of this appalling act | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
against our country, this
relationship cannot be the same. So, | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
we will suspend all planned
high-level bilateral contacts | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
between United Kingdom and the
Russian Federation. This includes | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
revoking the invitation to Foreign
Minister Lavrov to pay a reciprocal | 0:07:10 | 0:07:15 | |
visit to the UK and confirming it
will be no attendance by ministers | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
or members of the Royal family at
this summer's World Cup in Russia. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:24 | |
Finally, we will deploy a range of
tools from across the full breadth | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
of national security apparatus in
order to | 0:07:28 | 0:07:36 | |
set out some of these measures
today, members on all sides will | 0:07:36 | 0:07:37 | |
understand that there are some that
cannot be mentioned due to reasons | 0:07:37 | 0:07:44 | |
of national security. There are
other measures we stand ready to | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
deploy at any time, should we face
further Russian provocation. Mr | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
Speaker, none of the actions we take
our intended to damage legitimate | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
activity or prevent contacts between
our populations. We have no | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
disagreement with the people of
Russia. They have been responsible | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
for so many great achievements
throughout their history. Many other | 0:08:03 | 0:08:08 | |
us look at a post-Soviet Russia with
hope. We wanted a better | 0:08:08 | 0:08:12 | |
relationship, and it is tragic that
President Putin has chosen to act in | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
this way. But we will not tolerate
the threat to life of British people | 0:08:15 | 0:08:22 | |
and others on British soil from the
Russian government. Nor will we | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
tolerate such a flagrant breach of
Russia's international obligations. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
Mr Speaker, as I set out on Monday,
the United Kingdom is not standing | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
alone in confronting Russian
aggression. In the last ten to four | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
hours I have spoken to President
Trump, Chancellor Angela Merkel and | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
President Macron. We have agreed to
cooperate closely in responding to | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
this barbaric act and coordinate
efforts to stand for the rules | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
-based international order which
Russia seeks to undermine. I will | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
also speak to other allies and
partners in the coming days. I | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
welcome the strong expressions of
support from Nato and from partners | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
across the European Union and be on.
Later in New the UN Security Council | 0:09:01 | 0:09:09 | |
will hold open consultations, where
we will be pushing for a | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
international response. We have also
notified the information Billy Knott | 0:09:12 | 0:09:19 | |
Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons about Russia's use | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
of this nerve agent and we are
working with the police to enable | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
the open ECW to independently verify
the analysis. It was not just an act | 0:09:24 | 0:09:34 | |
in Salisbury or an act against the
UK, it is an affront to the | 0:09:34 | 0:09:40 | |
Prohibition of chemical weapons to
the rules -based system on which we | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
and our national partners depend. We
will work with allies and partners | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
to confront such actions were ever
they threaten our security at home | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
and abroad. I commend the statement
to the house. Jeremy Corbyn. Thank | 0:09:53 | 0:10:01 | |
you, Mr speaker. I would like to
thank the Prime Minister for the | 0:10:01 | 0:10:06 | |
advance sight of her statement and I
echo her words about the state of | 0:10:06 | 0:10:11 | |
emergency and public services. The
attack in Salisbury was an appalling | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
act of violence. Nerve agents are
abominable if used in any war, and | 0:10:15 | 0:10:21 | |
it is utterly reckless to use them
in a civilian environment. This | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
attack in Britain has concerned our
allies in the European Union, Nato | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
and the UN, and their words of
solidarity have strengthened our | 0:10:28 | 0:10:34 | |
position diplomatically. Our
response as a country must be guided | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
by the rule of law, support for
international agreements and respect | 0:10:37 | 0:10:42 | |
for human rights. So, when it comes
to the use of chemical weapons on | 0:10:42 | 0:10:48 | |
British soil, it is essential that
the Government works with the United | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
Nations to strengthen its chemical
weapons monitoring system and | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
involves the office of the
Prohibition of chemical weapons. The | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
Prime Minister said on Monday either
this was a direct act by the Russian | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
states or the Russian government
lost control of their potentially | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
catastrophically damaging nerve
agent and allow dish to get into the | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
hands of others. Our response must
be both decisive and proportionate, | 0:11:12 | 0:11:17 | |
and based on clear evidence. If the
Government believes that it is still | 0:11:17 | 0:11:24 | |
a possibility that Russia
negligently lost control of a | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
military grade nerve agent, what
action is being taken through the | 0:11:28 | 0:11:34 | |
OPCW with our allies? I welcome the
fact that the police are working | 0:11:34 | 0:11:39 | |
with the OPCW... And has the Prime
Minister taken the necessary steps | 0:11:39 | 0:11:45 | |
under the chemical weapons
convention to make a formal request | 0:11:45 | 0:11:50 | |
for evidence from the Russian
government under Article 9.2? How | 0:11:50 | 0:11:56 | |
has she responded to the Russian
government's request for a sample of | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
the agent used in the Salisbury
attack to run its own tests? Has | 0:12:00 | 0:12:10 | |
high-resolution trace analysis been
run on a sample of the nerve agent? | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
And has not revealed any evidence as
to the location of its production or | 0:12:14 | 0:12:19 | |
the identity of its perpetrators?
And can the Prime Minister update | 0:12:19 | 0:12:25 | |
the house on what conversations, if
any, she has had with the Russian | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
government? And, while... And while
suspending planned high-level | 0:12:28 | 0:12:36 | |
contact, does the Prime Minister
agree that it is essential to | 0:12:36 | 0:12:40 | |
maintain a robust dialogue with
Russia? In the interests of our own | 0:12:40 | 0:12:46 | |
and wider international security.
With many countries, Mr Speaker, | 0:12:46 | 0:12:52 | |
speaking out... Speaking out
alongside us, the circumstances | 0:12:52 | 0:13:00 | |
demand that we build an
international consensus to address | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
the use of chemical weapons. We
should urge our International are | 0:13:04 | 0:13:09 | |
lies to join us and call on Russia
to reveal, without delay, full | 0:13:09 | 0:13:15 | |
details of its chemical weapons
programme to the Organisation for | 0:13:15 | 0:13:20 | |
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
It is, as we on these benches have | 0:13:20 | 0:13:25 | |
its best before, a matter of huge
regret that there are countries -- | 0:13:25 | 0:13:33 | |
that our country's diplomatic
capacity has been stripped back in | 0:13:33 | 0:13:39 | |
the last five years. It is, Mr
Speaker... It is, Mr Speaker... The | 0:13:39 | 0:13:51 | |
Right Honourable Gentleman must be
heard. There will be adequate | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
opportunity for colleagues on both
sides of the house to put questions. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
Members must be heard. Jeremy
Corbyn. I couldn't understand a word | 0:13:58 | 0:14:03 | |
of what the Foreign Secretary just
said, Mr Speaker, but his behaviour | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
demeans his office. It is in moments
such as these that governments | 0:14:06 | 0:14:20 | |
realise how vital strong diplomacy
and political pressure are four hour | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
security and national interests. The
measures we take have to be | 0:14:23 | 0:14:31 | |
effective, not as for the long-term
security of citizens but to secure a | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
world free of chemical weapons. So,
can the Prime Minister outline what | 0:14:35 | 0:14:41 | |
discussions she has had with our
partners in the European Union, Nato | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
and the UN, and what a willingness
there was to take multilateral | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
action? While the poisonings, Mr
Speaker, of Sergei and Yulia Skripal | 0:14:48 | 0:14:57 | |
are confronting us today, what
efforts are being made to assess the | 0:14:57 | 0:15:02 | |
death of his daughter, who died in
2012, and the deaths of his eldest | 0:15:02 | 0:15:07 | |
brother and son, who had both died
in the past two years? We have a | 0:15:07 | 0:15:13 | |
duty to speak out against the abuse
of human rights by the Putin | 0:15:13 | 0:15:18 | |
government and its supporters, both
at home and abroad. I join many | 0:15:18 | 0:15:23 | |
others in this house in paying
tribute to the many campaigners in | 0:15:23 | 0:15:27 | |
Russia, for human rights and
justice, and democracy in that | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
country. Mr Speaker, we must do more
to address the dangers posed by the | 0:15:30 | 0:15:38 | |
State's relationship with unofficial
Mafia like groups and corrupt | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
oligarchs. We must also expose the
flows of ill gotten cash between the | 0:15:43 | 0:15:53 | |
Russian state and billionaires who
becomes stupendously rich by looting | 0:15:53 | 0:15:57 | |
their country and subsequently use
London to protect their wealth. We | 0:15:57 | 0:16:03 | |
welcome the Prime Minister's
statement though, clearly committing | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
to support the amendments and
commenting out as soon as possible, | 0:16:07 | 0:16:12 | |
as we on this side have long pushed
for. Mr Speaker, yesterday Nikolai | 0:16:12 | 0:16:18 | |
Kirchhoff, a Russian exile who is
close friends with Boris Berezovsky, | 0:16:18 | 0:16:24 | |
was found dead in his home. What
reassurance can she give to citizens | 0:16:24 | 0:16:30 | |
of Russian origin living in Britain
that they are safe here? The events | 0:16:30 | 0:16:37 | |
in Salisbury are abominable and have
been rightly condemned right across | 0:16:37 | 0:16:38 | |
the house. Britain has to build a
consensus with our allies, and we | 0:16:38 | 0:16:46 | |
support the Prime Minister in... Mr
Speaker, we support the Prime | 0:16:46 | 0:16:55 | |
Minister in taking multilateral
action, and firm action, to ensure | 0:16:55 | 0:16:59 | |
that we strengthen the chemical
weapons Convention, to ensure that | 0:16:59 | 0:17:04 | |
this dreadful, appalling act, which
we totally condemn, never happens | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
again in our country. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
Weapon the Right Honourable
Gentleman raised a number of | 0:17:13 | 0:17:20 | |
questions around the nerve agent
that had been used. He asked if we | 0:17:20 | 0:17:27 | |
have put together an international
coalition to call on Russia to | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
reveal the details of its chemical
weapons programme to the OPCW. That | 0:17:31 | 0:17:35 | |
is indeed what we did. We gave the
Russian government the opportunity, | 0:17:35 | 0:17:40 | |
through the message that was
delivered the Russian ambassador, to | 0:17:40 | 0:17:48 | |
do just that. They have not done so.
He has raised a number of questions. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:54 | |
He asked about the corrupt elites
and money going through London. As I | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
said in my statement, led by the
National Crime Agency, we will | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
continue to bring all of the
capabilities of UK law enforcement | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
to bear against serious criminals
and corrupt elites. There is no | 0:18:05 | 0:18:09 | |
place for these people or their
money in our country. That work is | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
ongoing. He talked about getting an
international consensus together. As | 0:18:12 | 0:18:19 | |
I have said, I have spoken to
Chancellor Merkel, to President | 0:18:19 | 0:18:25 | |
Trump, President Macron, and others
have expressed their support. The | 0:18:25 | 0:18:31 | |
Nato Secretary General said we stand
in solidarity with our allies in the | 0:18:31 | 0:18:35 | |
United Kingdom and those
responsible, both those who | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
committed and ordered the crime,
must face appropriately serious | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
consequences. The Nato Council has
expressed deep concern at the first | 0:18:41 | 0:18:46 | |
offensive use of a nerve agent on
Alliance territory since Nato's | 0:18:46 | 0:18:52 | |
foundation, and allies agreed with a
clear breach international norms and | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
agreements. Donald Tusk, the
President of the EU Council, said I | 0:18:54 | 0:18:59 | |
express my full solidarity with
Theresa May in the face of a brutal | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
attack inspired most likely by
Moscow. I am ready to put the issue | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
next week's European Council. We
will be doing that. I say to The | 0:19:07 | 0:19:13 | |
Right Honourable Gentleman that this
is not a question of our diplomacy, | 0:19:13 | 0:19:19 | |
what diplomatic support we have
around the world. This is a question | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
of the culpability of the Russian
state for attacks on our soil. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:28 | |
He says that we should be trying to
build a consensus. It is clear from | 0:19:33 | 0:19:39 | |
the conversations we have had with
allies that we have a consensus with | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
our allies. It was clear from the
remarks that were made by | 0:19:42 | 0:19:48 | |
backbenchers across the whole of the
house on Monday that there is a | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
consensus across the backbenchers of
this house. I am only sorry that the | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
consensus does not go as far as the
Right Honourable Gentleman. | 0:19:56 | 0:20:16 | |
Who could have taken the opportunity
as the UK Government has done to | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
condemn the culpability of the
Russian state. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:28 | |
Mr Kenneth Clarke!
Mr Speaker, it seems to me without | 0:20:28 | 0:20:33 | |
any access to enclosed information
that the choice of this particularly | 0:20:33 | 0:20:37 | |
bizarre and dreadful way of killing
an individual is a deliberate choice | 0:20:37 | 0:20:42 | |
by the Russian Government to put
their signature on a particular | 0:20:42 | 0:20:48 | |
killing so that other defectors are
left in no doubt that it is the | 0:20:48 | 0:20:52 | |
Russian Government that will act if
they are disappointed in any way by | 0:20:52 | 0:20:58 | |
their actions. In light of that, the
only sensible question that the | 0:20:58 | 0:21:02 | |
Leader of the Opposition asked was
what consultation we propose to have | 0:21:02 | 0:21:08 | |
with Nato, the other European
countries, with the American | 0:21:08 | 0:21:14 | |
Government, about positive action
that can be taken to prevent this | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
continuing defiance of international
law, with the defiance of all the | 0:21:18 | 0:21:23 | |
rules and testing and possession of
chemical weapons. It is not just a | 0:21:23 | 0:21:29 | |
question of expressing anger about
it, but actually a serious threat to | 0:21:29 | 0:21:35 | |
the safety of the Western world,
unless we all do something together | 0:21:35 | 0:21:43 | |
to start getting the Russians to do
something as opposed to simply | 0:21:43 | 0:21:48 | |
ignore us.
My right honourable friend and | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
learning friend is absolutely right,
and that is why we are not only | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
talking to allies bilaterally but
there will be a meeting of the Nato | 0:21:56 | 0:22:01 | |
Council tomorrow at which this issue
will be considered, as the president | 0:22:01 | 0:22:07 | |
of the EU Council said, he will be
putting this on the agenda of the | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
European Union Council meeting at
the end of next week. My right | 0:22:10 | 0:22:15 | |
honourable and learning friend is
absolutely right, that why we | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
rightly initially focus on the use
of the nerve agent in the UK and its | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
impact in the UK, this is about the
illegal use of chemical weapons by | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
the Russian state, and it is about
an illegal programme to develop | 0:22:25 | 0:22:30 | |
those chemical weapons, by the
Russian state. We will leave no | 0:22:30 | 0:22:35 | |
Stone unturned in order to work with
our allies to ensure we respond | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
appropriately to that. Thank you, Mr
Speaker. Let me thank the Prime | 0:22:38 | 0:22:48 | |
Minister for her statement. As the
Prime Minister has stated, the | 0:22:48 | 0:22:52 | |
attack on Sergei Skripal and his
daughter was an unlawful use of | 0:22:52 | 0:22:56 | |
force by the Russian state against
the United Kingdom. Mr Speaker, | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
there has to be a robust response to
the use of terror on our streets. We | 0:23:01 | 0:23:09 | |
must act in a measured way to show
that we will simply not tolerate | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
this behaviour, and in this regard,
I welcome and associate with those | 0:23:13 | 0:23:18 | |
of us on these benches with the
measures contained in the statement. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:26 | |
On this matter, I commit my party to
working constructively with the | 0:23:26 | 0:23:30 | |
Government. I am sure the House will
join me with extending thanks to the | 0:23:30 | 0:23:38 | |
police and security services who are
working round the clock and the | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
recent case in Salsbury. Mr Speaker,
it has been warming to see our | 0:23:41 | 0:23:48 | |
closest friends and allies across
Europe expressing solidarity and | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
support. Our friends globally must
join with us by standing up to this | 0:23:50 | 0:23:56 | |
abuse of state power by Russia. I
look forward to discussions in the | 0:23:56 | 0:24:00 | |
United Nations. The UN must speak
with a clear and unambiguous voice. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:07 | |
Mr Speaker, the fact that we are
expelling the largest number of | 0:24:07 | 0:24:12 | |
undeclared intelligence officers in
over 30 years is welcome and is the | 0:24:12 | 0:24:18 | |
desire to examine what can be done
from a legislative perspective to | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
defend against hostile state
activity. As someone who has | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
previously supported the so-called
Magnitsky measures, I am pleased the | 0:24:25 | 0:24:30 | |
Government is taking action in this
area. Let me commend the actions of | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
another who had the opportunity, I
met with him earlier. Someone who | 0:24:34 | 0:24:40 | |
was at massive risk and stood at the
effects of Russian state power. Mr | 0:24:40 | 0:24:47 | |
Speaker, financial sanctions are
welcome and we must redouble our | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
efforts against any money-laundering
by those responsible. It must be | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
clear to the Russian authorities
that we will not tolerate activities | 0:24:52 | 0:24:58 | |
that infringe international law.
Whilst we support the actions of the | 0:24:58 | 0:25:04 | |
PM, we'll get a descriptive nice
carefully and must ensure proper | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
scrutiny of any proposed
legislation. Our thoughts are with | 0:25:07 | 0:25:13 | |
those are in Russia who have
suffered abuse of state power and | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
there is no doubt that is what we
are seeing. In doing so, we look | 0:25:15 | 0:25:19 | |
forward to a time when we can engage
positively for a time of peace and | 0:25:19 | 0:25:24 | |
cooperation, but the only response
today must be a robust one towards | 0:25:24 | 0:25:27 | |
the Kremlin and Russia.
CHEERING | 0:25:27 | 0:25:33 | |
Can I... | 0:25:33 | 0:25:41 | |
THEY ALL YELL | 0:25:41 | 0:25:46 | |
Mr Speaker, can I thank the right
honourable gentlemen for not just | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
the tone of his response but the
comments he has made. Can I reassure | 0:25:48 | 0:25:54 | |
him that any legislative proposals
we bring forward will have scrutiny | 0:25:54 | 0:25:58 | |
in this house? Can thank him for his
constructive offer to work with the | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
Government on this issue, because it
is a matter that should concern is | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
across the whole House? And can
reassure him that although I have | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
made reference to a number of allies
who have spoken in support of the | 0:26:08 | 0:26:13 | |
UK, others have as well, including
Canada and Australia, who have been | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
very clear a robust response is
appropriate to this? Once again, I | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
welcome the comments made by the
right honourable gentlemen. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
Mr Speaker, may recommend my right
honourable friend for her strong | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
leadership? In rising to this
challenge as others have shown they | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
also two in positions of leadership
have risen to the challenge, and I | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
may be sorry that others in such
positions have fallen well short... | 0:26:35 | 0:26:42 | |
Can I ask her, in the conversation
she is going to have with our | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
allies, as he is correct to do, she
may raise with the German Government | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
the issue of the pipeline that they
are engaged in with the Russians, | 0:26:49 | 0:26:55 | |
which will cut revenues from Ukraine
and Eastern Europe and give Russia | 0:26:55 | 0:27:00 | |
and unparalleled ability to bully
those countries in the future? If | 0:27:00 | 0:27:05 | |
Russia is as we now believe a rogue
state, could she please try and | 0:27:05 | 0:27:11 | |
persuade our allies in Europe and
elsewhere not to treat with them and | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
make them better off.
Well, I thank my right honourable | 0:27:14 | 0:27:19 | |
friend and can I say to him that I
think one of the things we will be | 0:27:19 | 0:27:23 | |
discussing with our allies is how we
can ensure that the robust message | 0:27:23 | 0:27:27 | |
about the act that has taken place
on UK soil is consistently given and | 0:27:27 | 0:27:33 | |
continues to be given by all our
allies? As regards to the pipeline, | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
this is a matter regularly discussed
at the European Union Council, as my | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
right honourable friend would I
suspect imagine. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
I welcome the Prime Minister's
statement but her conclusion about | 0:27:45 | 0:27:50 | |
the probability of the Russian state
is an immensely serious one. That in | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
addition to the breaches of
international law and of the use of | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
chemical weapons, but also the
continued disregard for the rule of | 0:27:57 | 0:28:02 | |
law and for human rights must be met
with unequivocal condemnation. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:13 | |
Hear, hear! | 0:28:13 | 0:28:18 | |
Can I welcome but the managers she
has taken to downgrade the | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
intelligence capability of the
Russian state, but also in | 0:28:21 | 0:28:27 | |
particular the work I now understand
has started with the United Nations? | 0:28:27 | 0:28:31 | |
It is important to expose Russia and
what they are doing within the | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
United Nations and to build the
broadest possible support against | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
them. Can she say that more about
what she is doing that front? | 0:28:38 | 0:28:43 | |
Can I also thank the right
honourable lady for the strength of | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
the statement she has made. I know
this is representative of many of | 0:28:46 | 0:28:51 | |
her honourable friends on the
backbenches. We are taking this | 0:28:51 | 0:28:55 | |
matter to the UN and my right
honourable friend the Foreign | 0:28:55 | 0:28:59 | |
Secretary has spoken to the UN
Secretary-General that this issue. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:01 | |
It will be part of the open
discussion taking place tomorrow and | 0:29:01 | 0:29:05 | |
that is the start of the process of
looking at this issue. But as I | 0:29:05 | 0:29:11 | |
indicated in response to my right
honourable friend, the member for | 0:29:11 | 0:29:15 | |
Rushcliffe, this is not just about
the incident which has taken place | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
here in the United Kingdom but it is
about this use of chemical weapons, | 0:29:18 | 0:29:22 | |
this illegal use of chemical weapons
which has taken place. And the role | 0:29:22 | 0:29:26 | |
of the Russian state and the
development of chemical weapons, | 0:29:26 | 0:29:29 | |
contrary to international law.
Mr Speaker, no reasonable person can | 0:29:29 | 0:29:34 | |
possibly doubt that the Russian
Government has behaved with | 0:29:34 | 0:29:41 | |
arrogance and inhumanity and with
contempt, not least in failing to | 0:29:41 | 0:29:47 | |
respond to the Prime Minister's
deadline, which it surely would have | 0:29:47 | 0:29:52 | |
done if it had known it was innocent
of this charge. In welcoming the | 0:29:52 | 0:29:58 | |
Prime Minister's expulsion of 23
diplomats for intelligence agencies, | 0:29:58 | 0:30:06 | |
will I ask her to make it clear that
any retaliation in kind by the | 0:30:06 | 0:30:13 | |
Russian Government will be met by a
further expulsions, possibly | 0:30:13 | 0:30:17 | |
including even the ambassador, who
spends so much time coming to talk | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
to us in this place, prolonging the
poor state of Anglo Russian | 0:30:21 | 0:30:26 | |
relations? Will she accept that
Russia traditionally respects | 0:30:26 | 0:30:35 | |
strength and despite his weakness,
and that the time has come to | 0:30:35 | 0:30:41 | |
recognise that 2% GDP is not enough
to spend on defence when we are | 0:30:41 | 0:30:46 | |
reverting to the sort of adversarial
relationship, when we used to spend | 0:30:46 | 0:30:52 | |
a much higher proportion of GDP in
ensuring that this country was well | 0:30:52 | 0:30:56 | |
defended?
Can I thank my right honourable | 0:30:56 | 0:31:01 | |
friend for his remarks? As I said in
my statement, in response to his | 0:31:01 | 0:31:05 | |
first point, there are other
measures we stand ready to deploy | 0:31:05 | 0:31:08 | |
any time, should we face further
Russian provocation. On the other | 0:31:08 | 0:31:12 | |
point he made, of course, as we have
been looking through our national | 0:31:12 | 0:31:17 | |
security capability review and our
modernising defence programme | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
review, what we're is ensuring that
for the variety and diversity of | 0:31:20 | 0:31:26 | |
threats this country faces, we have
the resources and capabilities | 0:31:26 | 0:31:29 | |
available to deal with those
threats. But of course, as those | 0:31:29 | 0:31:34 | |
threats diversify, not all of them
will be responded to buy what is | 0:31:34 | 0:31:38 | |
conventionally normally considered
to be defence. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:42 | |
Can I say that I, and my party,
fully support the Prime Minister's | 0:31:42 | 0:31:46 | |
statement? Can I start by asking
what is her response to the brave | 0:31:46 | 0:31:53 | |
Leader of the Opposition in Russia,
who is not allowed to stand in the | 0:31:53 | 0:31:58 | |
presidential election? Who has said
that the most effective action the | 0:31:58 | 0:32:03 | |
British Government can take is to
use its legal powers, such as the | 0:32:03 | 0:32:08 | |
unexplained wealth orders, against
named individuals who are critical | 0:32:08 | 0:32:12 | |
to the Putin operation? And unions
in particular a person who has | 0:32:12 | 0:32:20 | |
substantial property and sporting
interests and the first Deputy Prime | 0:32:20 | 0:32:26 | |
Minister, who amongst other things
owns a £40 million flat overlooking | 0:32:26 | 0:32:32 | |
the Ministry of Defence? Will she
act? | 0:32:32 | 0:32:37 | |
And I thank the right honourable
gentlemen for the support he has | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
given to the actions being taken by
the Government. Can I also say to | 0:32:39 | 0:32:44 | |
him, as I did in my statement, that
we do of course look at issues | 0:32:44 | 0:32:50 | |
around corrupt elites and we look at
issues around criminal finance and | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
we look at using the tools and
capabilities that are at our | 0:32:53 | 0:32:59 | |
disposal, and the National Crime
Agency continues without work? | 0:32:59 | 0:33:04 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. May I thank
the Prime Minister for higher press | 0:33:04 | 0:33:07 | |
of leadership in this matter?
Unusually I side with the leader of | 0:33:07 | 0:33:14 | |
the Liberal Democrats in calling for
more use of Linux by wealth | 0:33:14 | 0:33:17 | |
orders... Can also ask her if she
will use tools at his disposal to | 0:33:17 | 0:33:21 | |
expose the wealth of the Vladimir
Putin family? $300 million or more | 0:33:21 | 0:33:25 | |
has been stolen from the Russian
people buy that man. We should | 0:33:25 | 0:33:28 | |
expose them for what he is and not
be a useful idiot hiding behind | 0:33:28 | 0:33:32 | |
legalism of his crimes.
Can I thank my friend Mike for his | 0:33:32 | 0:33:38 | |
contribution and suggestion? And I
also say on the unexplained wealth | 0:33:38 | 0:33:41 | |
orders, of course, those articles we
do use, but we have to use is | 0:33:41 | 0:33:46 | |
properly in accordance with the rule
of law, following the new processes | 0:33:46 | 0:33:50 | |
that should take place.
Thank you, and I welcome the Prime | 0:33:50 | 0:33:57 | |
Minister's statement, agree with her
analysis and fully support the | 0:33:57 | 0:33:59 | |
Government's actions.
I understand that the Foreign Office | 0:33:59 | 0:34:06 | |
has called for an urgent meeting of
the UN Security Council. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:12 | |
What is the Prime Minister think the
result of this is likely to be, | 0:34:12 | 0:34:15 | |
given that one permanent member of
the council is engaging in unlawful | 0:34:15 | 0:34:21 | |
attacks on another, and does she
share my concerns that Russian | 0:34:21 | 0:34:25 | |
action in this country, in Ukraine,
and in backing Assad's murderous | 0:34:25 | 0:34:31 | |
regime in Syria, means that the
current security Council mechanism | 0:34:31 | 0:34:38 | |
is broken?
Thank you, to her for her comments. | 0:34:38 | 0:34:43 | |
And the Foreign Secretary spoke to
the UN Secretary-General yesterday | 0:34:43 | 0:34:45 | |
and later today in New York, the UN
security council will hold initial | 0:34:45 | 0:34:51 | |
consultations and obviously Russia
is a member of that Security Council | 0:34:51 | 0:34:54 | |
but I think it is important we
continue to use the international | 0:34:54 | 0:34:57 | |
organisations that are available to
us. The United Nations is a | 0:34:57 | 0:35:03 | |
protector of the International rules
-based order and that is what it | 0:35:03 | 0:35:05 | |
should be, we will continue to press
for a robust international response. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:13 | |
It is clear that almost unanimously
across the house there is support | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
for my right honourable friend's
proportionate and right response to | 0:35:16 | 0:35:20 | |
this crisis. In particular, she is
absolutely right to use the | 0:35:20 | 0:35:25 | |
mechanisms of the United Nations to
make clear to everybody what has | 0:35:25 | 0:35:29 | |
happened in this case. And will she
also bear in mind that in Syria, | 0:35:29 | 0:35:33 | |
Russia has either indirectly or
directly authorised and used | 0:35:33 | 0:35:39 | |
chemical weapons. May I also thank
her for what she has said about the | 0:35:39 | 0:35:41 | |
Magnitsky amendment, which many
others across the house have been | 0:35:41 | 0:35:46 | |
working for for some time now. I
hope she will give consideration for | 0:35:46 | 0:35:50 | |
implementing the full Magnitsky
amendment, as it has been in | 0:35:50 | 0:35:55 | |
fermented in America and Canada.
Panay first of all say, and it picks | 0:35:55 | 0:36:03 | |
up a point made from the previous
question, that this is not some day | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
one act we see from Russia, it is a
pattern of actions by Russia, where | 0:36:06 | 0:36:11 | |
they are undertaking, in a variety
of ways, different actions. Of | 0:36:11 | 0:36:15 | |
course, what we see them doing in
Syria, the illegal annexation of | 0:36:15 | 0:36:22 | |
Premier, and the use of propaganda,
their attempts to interfere in | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
elections across the continent of
Europe. -- Crimea. These are all the | 0:36:25 | 0:36:30 | |
actions that the Russian state are
getting involved in. In response to | 0:36:30 | 0:36:33 | |
the second point, we will bring
forward a government amendment to | 0:36:33 | 0:36:37 | |
reflect the Magnitsky considerations
and ensure that we have got the | 0:36:37 | 0:36:42 | |
strongest possible means to deal
with these issues. We welcome the | 0:36:42 | 0:36:48 | |
decisive action which is being taken
by the Prime Minister today. It sits | 0:36:48 | 0:36:52 | |
in contrast with the policy of
appeasement that we have heard from | 0:36:52 | 0:36:56 | |
the front bench of the Labour Party.
I am sure the people of the United | 0:36:56 | 0:37:02 | |
Kingdom are pleased that it is the
Prime Minister who is standing | 0:37:02 | 0:37:07 | |
behind the dispatch box today,
defending the rule of law and the | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
citizens of this country. However,
she has told us she has spoken to | 0:37:10 | 0:37:14 | |
our allies over the last couple of
days. Perhaps you could tell us, | 0:37:14 | 0:37:18 | |
apart from words of support, what
actions have they committed to to | 0:37:18 | 0:37:23 | |
ensure that, first of all, a message
is sent out about this action and | 0:37:23 | 0:37:26 | |
actions in the future? Can I thank
the honourable gentleman for his | 0:37:26 | 0:37:31 | |
remarks and the support of the DUP
for the action of the Government is | 0:37:31 | 0:37:35 | |
taking on this matter? Can I say to
them, in relation to the action | 0:37:35 | 0:37:42 | |
taken by international allies, they
were waiting to announce the actions | 0:37:42 | 0:37:46 | |
we were taking, the decision taken
by the National Security Council | 0:37:46 | 0:37:49 | |
this morning, but we will be holding
further discussions with allies | 0:37:49 | 0:37:52 | |
about the way in which they can
support what we're doing with | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
actions themselves. I entirely agree
with the approach adopted by my | 0:37:55 | 0:38:01 | |
right honourable friend the Prime
Minister in how she has responded to | 0:38:01 | 0:38:04 | |
this outrageous attack. Does she
agree with me that the difficulty we | 0:38:04 | 0:38:10 | |
face is not so much in getting the
concurrence of our allies in | 0:38:10 | 0:38:14 | |
agreeing on the nature of the
outrage, but how we are going to | 0:38:14 | 0:38:18 | |
craft a sustained strategy so that
those of us who believe in the rules | 0:38:18 | 0:38:24 | |
-based international system you can
apply the necessary leverage and | 0:38:24 | 0:38:28 | |
persuasion on Russia to conform to
it? And the very serious risk that | 0:38:28 | 0:38:33 | |
we run is that if we do not succeed
in doing this, the level of violence | 0:38:33 | 0:38:38 | |
that Russia is guide to exercise
with impunity against other states | 0:38:38 | 0:38:43 | |
and us will simply increase? And
that this is something that our | 0:38:43 | 0:38:47 | |
allies in particular must have
regard to if we are going to make | 0:38:47 | 0:38:53 | |
any progress? My right honourable
and learned friend is absolutely | 0:38:53 | 0:38:55 | |
correct that this is an issue that
we need to address in that wider | 0:38:55 | 0:38:59 | |
sense, because it is about the way
in which the Russian state is | 0:38:59 | 0:39:05 | |
acting, it believes, with impunity,
in a whole variety of ways, the way | 0:39:05 | 0:39:08 | |
in which it is flouting
international rules -based order. We | 0:39:08 | 0:39:12 | |
must come together as allies to
ensure that we are supporting that | 0:39:12 | 0:39:15 | |
international rules -based order and
that we have not just a collective | 0:39:15 | 0:39:21 | |
agreement, but a collective approach
that ensures that we can challenge | 0:39:21 | 0:39:23 | |
what Russia is doing. But he's also
right, one of the points I think we | 0:39:23 | 0:39:29 | |
should be making to our allies is
that this may have happened in the | 0:39:29 | 0:39:32 | |
United Kingdom, but, actually, it is
something that could be happening | 0:39:32 | 0:39:35 | |
any of these states. I join others
in welcoming the measure is the | 0:39:35 | 0:39:42 | |
Prime Minister has announced today.
As Russia has chosen to act against | 0:39:42 | 0:39:48 | |
us in such an outrageous way, we
have to demonstrate our | 0:39:48 | 0:39:51 | |
determination to defend ourselves.
Given that Russia's usual response | 0:39:51 | 0:39:56 | |
is to deny all responsibility for
such actions, as well as seeking the | 0:39:56 | 0:40:01 | |
assistance of the Organisation for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | 0:40:01 | 0:40:04 | |
in identifying the sample, does she
intend, as any member state is | 0:40:04 | 0:40:09 | |
entitled to do, to ask for that
organisation to carry out an | 0:40:09 | 0:40:13 | |
investigation, including an
inspection of any facilities or | 0:40:13 | 0:40:19 | |
locations in Russia where this nerve
agent in all probability was | 0:40:19 | 0:40:23 | |
produced? Can I say to the Right
Honourable Gentleman that we will be | 0:40:23 | 0:40:28 | |
talking to the OPCW about a number
of ways in which not just the sample | 0:40:28 | 0:40:34 | |
of the nerve agent used here in the
United Kingdom can be independently | 0:40:34 | 0:40:38 | |
verified, but other actions that the
OPCW might be able to take? May I | 0:40:38 | 0:40:45 | |
welcome the decision of the
Government to refer the patiently | 0:40:45 | 0:40:52 | |
and carefully acquired evidence in
this attack to the Organisation for | 0:40:52 | 0:40:57 | |
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons?
Is it her intention that the | 0:40:57 | 0:40:59 | |
findings should be transferred to
the Russians, the United Nations and | 0:40:59 | 0:41:02 | |
to ourselves, and will she consider,
in light of that finding, going | 0:41:02 | 0:41:07 | |
further on unexplained wealth orders
and other financial sanctions | 0:41:07 | 0:41:11 | |
against Russia if necessary? I say
to my right honourable friend that, | 0:41:11 | 0:41:17 | |
of course, we are asking the OPCW to
independently verify this, so that | 0:41:17 | 0:41:21 | |
it can be clear to everyone the
nature of this nerve agent. Can I | 0:41:21 | 0:41:27 | |
also say to him that, as I said
earlier in response to the | 0:41:27 | 0:41:31 | |
unexplained wealth orders, these are
things which we do operate, we do | 0:41:31 | 0:41:35 | |
use and we have introduced. We will
always ensure that they are done on | 0:41:35 | 0:41:43 | |
evidence and, obviously, we operate
according to the rule of law. Can I | 0:41:43 | 0:41:49 | |
welcome the Prime Minister's clear
statement and her condemnation of | 0:41:49 | 0:41:53 | |
the Russians, and the action she has
taken? Can I in particular welcome | 0:41:53 | 0:41:58 | |
the fact that she is adopting the
Magnitsky Amendment from the | 0:41:58 | 0:42:03 | |
Government? Can I say that too much
money is being Lord and -- laundered | 0:42:03 | 0:42:11 | |
and finding its way to the British
system? There are two magazines she | 0:42:11 | 0:42:15 | |
could do pretty quickly to tackle
that. In the first place, she could | 0:42:15 | 0:42:17 | |
bring forward a public register of
ownership of properties, promised by | 0:42:17 | 0:42:24 | |
her predecessor in 2015 and has been
delayed by this government. In the | 0:42:24 | 0:42:29 | |
second place, she could increase
transparency in our corporate | 0:42:29 | 0:42:32 | |
structures, so that we will know who
forms companies, where the money | 0:42:32 | 0:42:39 | |
comes from, and deal with it if it
is illicit money that is brought in | 0:42:39 | 0:42:43 | |
by unsavoury people? In relation to
the issue she has raised about the | 0:42:43 | 0:42:52 | |
transparency, in relation to
property ownership, that is | 0:42:52 | 0:42:57 | |
something I have discussed with the
Business Secretary. We haven't been | 0:42:57 | 0:42:59 | |
delaying that. We need to make sure
we get that right. We have been | 0:42:59 | 0:43:03 | |
discussing the timing for
introducing that. We do want sure we | 0:43:03 | 0:43:06 | |
have all the tools in our locker we
can use that can help us in the | 0:43:06 | 0:43:11 | |
endeavour that we are engaged in. I
want to 100% support the premise was | 0:43:11 | 0:43:20 | |
a statement and the actions she is
taking. To follow up on the last | 0:43:20 | 0:43:25 | |
question, I wanted to pick up on the
statement that there is no place for | 0:43:25 | 0:43:29 | |
serious criminals and corrupt elites
or their money in our country. There | 0:43:29 | 0:43:33 | |
are amendments that the premise will
support. It will she bear in mind | 0:43:33 | 0:43:39 | |
that the select committees need to
know what is going on to tackle | 0:43:39 | 0:43:47 | |
dirty money in the City of London or
elsewhere, to bring evidence to the | 0:43:47 | 0:43:52 | |
house, to shake the action that the
Government can then take? I thank my | 0:43:52 | 0:43:56 | |
right arm will friend for her
suggestion. Indeed, I recognise the | 0:43:56 | 0:44:00 | |
role that select committees can
play. I suspect my right honourable | 0:44:00 | 0:44:04 | |
friend has just set up a stream of
work for her own Treasury Select | 0:44:04 | 0:44:07 | |
Committee to undertake. Can I ensure
the Prime Minister that most of us | 0:44:07 | 0:44:15 | |
on these benches fully support the
measures she has announced today. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:21 | |
Indeed, some of us think they could
have come a bit sooner. On the wider | 0:44:21 | 0:44:26 | |
issue of Putin's hybrid warfare
against our country, will she Tasker | 0:44:26 | 0:44:33 | |
the intelligence services to
investigate his influencing | 0:44:33 | 0:44:40 | |
operations in our institutions and
political parties? The Right | 0:44:40 | 0:44:45 | |
Honourable Gentleman raises an
important issue about the propaganda | 0:44:45 | 0:44:49 | |
activities that are being undertaken
and I will look at his suggestions. | 0:44:49 | 0:44:57 | |
We should all be thanking God today
it is my right honourable friend at | 0:44:57 | 0:45:00 | |
her place and not the so-called
alternative. I am not expecting my | 0:45:00 | 0:45:06 | |
right honourable friend to comment
on the detail, but this morning, | 0:45:06 | 0:45:09 | |
residents in my constituency saw the
Metropolitan Police and the army in | 0:45:09 | 0:45:16 | |
place, the stricken lockdown,
removing vehicles and items linked | 0:45:16 | 0:45:21 | |
to the Salisbury incident. I am not
expecting my right honourable friend | 0:45:21 | 0:45:28 | |
to give over information on current
operations, but Coogee content two | 0:45:28 | 0:45:35 | |
things? First, that she, the
government and the security services | 0:45:35 | 0:45:37 | |
are doing all that they can to my
constituents safe, and can she | 0:45:37 | 0:45:42 | |
arrange fulsomely to provide
everything to me, as the member of | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
Parliament, as to precisely what
happened? Can I say to my right | 0:45:45 | 0:45:49 | |
honourable friend I am very happy to
do that. As he will be aware, the | 0:45:49 | 0:45:53 | |
police investigation does continue.
We cannot say where the | 0:45:53 | 0:45:57 | |
investigation is going to take the
police in terms of their further | 0:45:57 | 0:46:00 | |
inquiries. I was sure that she is
provided with a briefing as a member | 0:46:00 | 0:46:03 | |
of Parliament. I completely support
everything the Prime Minister has | 0:46:03 | 0:46:07 | |
said today. The truth is, under
Putin, the Russian Federation has | 0:46:07 | 0:46:15 | |
managed to combine all of the worst
facets of communism and all of the | 0:46:15 | 0:46:18 | |
worst assets of rampant capitalism,
all wrapped up inside a national | 0:46:18 | 0:46:23 | |
security state which keeps its
people poor and kills his political | 0:46:23 | 0:46:30 | |
opponents. Can I just ask about the
Russian ambassador? Since he arrived | 0:46:30 | 0:46:33 | |
here seven years ago, he has
repeatedly lied to parliamentarians. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:40 | |
He has tried to get the speaker to
stop debates on Russia happening in | 0:46:40 | 0:46:45 | |
this house. He has tried to
interfere in the internal elections | 0:46:45 | 0:46:48 | |
of this house. Surely to God, it is
time we now told him that we will | 0:46:48 | 0:46:54 | |
order our affairs in this country,
not him, and he can go home. Welcome | 0:46:54 | 0:47:03 | |
I say to the Right Honourable
Gentleman he is absolutely right, we | 0:47:03 | 0:47:07 | |
will order our affairs in this
country and we will not be told what | 0:47:07 | 0:47:10 | |
to do by Russian ambassadors. I
fully expect the house authorities | 0:47:10 | 0:47:17 | |
to ensure it is not possible for an
external parties such as that to | 0:47:17 | 0:47:20 | |
interfere in elections in this
house. Can I also say that it is a | 0:47:20 | 0:47:24 | |
brave man who tries to tell the
Speaker of the House of Commons what | 0:47:24 | 0:47:28 | |
to do when anything down. For the
avoidance of doubt, he got nowhere | 0:47:28 | 0:47:31 | |
with me, you be sure about that.
Anna Soubry? Is to Speaker, it is | 0:47:31 | 0:47:39 | |
noticeable that the length and
breadth of this place has completely | 0:47:39 | 0:47:43 | |
supported not just the wise words
and leadership of the Prime | 0:47:43 | 0:47:44 | |
Minister, but also her firm actions,
with the notable exception of the | 0:47:44 | 0:47:49 | |
front bench of the opposition. That
is a shameful moment. Further to the | 0:47:49 | 0:47:57 | |
question asked by the Honourable
Member for Exeter, democracy is a | 0:47:57 | 0:48:03 | |
fundamental British value. And there
have been long held concerns that | 0:48:03 | 0:48:07 | |
Russia has been seeking to undermine
and interfere in it. If those | 0:48:07 | 0:48:14 | |
concerns now turn to evidence, will
she take equally robust action | 0:48:14 | 0:48:16 | |
against Russia to ensure that our
great British democracy continues to | 0:48:16 | 0:48:22 | |
be protected? | 0:48:22 | 0:48:25 | |
I am very happy to give the
assurance to my right honourable | 0:48:26 | 0:48:29 | |
friend of the action that we take.
We recognise that the first duty of | 0:48:29 | 0:48:34 | |
government is to safeguard the
nation and we treat the security and | 0:48:34 | 0:48:39 | |
integrity of our democratic
processes, as with everything else | 0:48:39 | 0:48:41 | |
in this country, very seriously. In
terms of disinformation that is used | 0:48:41 | 0:48:47 | |
by the Kremlin, we know that they
persistently use this to destabilise | 0:48:47 | 0:48:52 | |
perceived enemies, and managing this
is a long-term priority for the UK. | 0:48:52 | 0:48:55 | |
We continue to work not just as the
UK, but with international partners | 0:48:55 | 0:48:59 | |
on efforts to counter this.
Alongside many colleagues in this | 0:48:59 | 0:49:06 | |
house, I speak and a half of my
party in calling for a robust and | 0:49:06 | 0:49:09 | |
immediate response. Sources inform
us that Russia is the UK's biggest | 0:49:09 | 0:49:17 | |
wrappings grade nuclear substances
export market. This is despite | 0:49:17 | 0:49:21 | |
several attempts at a moratorium on
depleted uranium by the European | 0:49:21 | 0:49:25 | |
Parliament and the United Nations.
Will the Prime Minister confirm | 0:49:25 | 0:49:29 | |
whether the UK still exports nuclear
substances to Russia, and, if so, | 0:49:29 | 0:49:32 | |
surely this should be among the very
first sanctions imposed? Can I thank | 0:49:32 | 0:49:39 | |
the honourable lady for the remarks
that she has made for the support | 0:49:39 | 0:49:42 | |
she has given from her party for the
actions that the government is | 0:49:42 | 0:49:48 | |
taking. What we have been talking
about today is the use of a nerve | 0:49:48 | 0:49:50 | |
agent, they chemical weapon UK soil,
and the blatant flouting of the | 0:49:50 | 0:49:57 | |
International rules -based order,
and the legal structure around that | 0:49:57 | 0:50:01 | |
use of chemical weapons by the
Russian state. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:06 | |
When I served as Security Minister
and my right honourable friend was | 0:50:07 | 0:50:12 | |
Home Secretary, I became aware of
both of her outstanding | 0:50:12 | 0:50:16 | |
determination and dedication, and
they commitment of expertise to | 0:50:16 | 0:50:25 | |
security services and
counterterrorism. She knows as the | 0:50:25 | 0:50:27 | |
House knows that this is important.
But this invent happened in | 0:50:27 | 0:50:30 | |
Salisbury and could have happened in
rapture or a Lincolnshire... Will | 0:50:30 | 0:50:34 | |
she asked the Home Secretary to look
at whether our local woollies forces | 0:50:34 | 0:50:40 | |
are equipped, given the dynamic --
whether our local police forces are | 0:50:40 | 0:50:46 | |
quotes given the dynamic nature of
these events, to deal with these | 0:50:46 | 0:50:50 | |
events?
He has a particular understanding of | 0:50:50 | 0:50:54 | |
these issues, but can I say to him
that the ability to bring in | 0:50:54 | 0:51:00 | |
capabilities of the counterterrorism
police, who don't just operate in | 0:51:00 | 0:51:03 | |
the Metropolitan Police, as he
knows, but have regional bases | 0:51:03 | 0:51:06 | |
around the country as well, is part
of the layover structure we have in | 0:51:06 | 0:51:12 | |
relation to police forces, but I am
sure my right honourable friend will | 0:51:12 | 0:51:14 | |
make sure that the police look at
the immediate response that they | 0:51:14 | 0:51:18 | |
have to this incident, to ensure we
will not see an incident of this | 0:51:18 | 0:51:23 | |
type happening again on UK soil, and
that is why we are giving a clear | 0:51:23 | 0:51:27 | |
message to the Russian state that we
do want to ensure all of our police | 0:51:27 | 0:51:31 | |
forces are aware of threats they may
face. | 0:51:31 | 0:51:40 | |
The Prime Minister's words were
appropriate, measured and correct, | 0:51:40 | 0:51:43 | |
and she has my full support. She
mentions dirty money from Russia. | 0:51:43 | 0:51:47 | |
Can she look again at the role of
the tax Havens internationally, | 0:51:47 | 0:51:56 | |
including those in British Overseas
Territories and Crown dependencies? | 0:51:56 | 0:52:02 | |
I thank the honourable gentleman for
his remarks. Can I say to him that, | 0:52:02 | 0:52:07 | |
as he knows, we have been taking a
number of measures in relation to | 0:52:07 | 0:52:12 | |
financial activities in the British
Overseas Territories and | 0:52:12 | 0:52:15 | |
dependencies, and we continued to
press and those? And of course we | 0:52:15 | 0:52:20 | |
have enhanced our ability to deal
with these issues here in relation | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
to economic crime through the
formation of the National economic | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
crime Centre, which I am pleased to
say, obviously having fun the | 0:52:26 | 0:52:29 | |
National Crime Agency, we have now
set up that national economic crime | 0:52:29 | 0:52:34 | |
Centre as part of the NCA which
brings capabilities together to do | 0:52:34 | 0:52:38 | |
with these issues?
My constituents will be reassured by | 0:52:38 | 0:52:45 | |
the way you are regarding the
nation's security. Can I ask my | 0:52:45 | 0:52:52 | |
honourable friend to contempt the
remarks of President Putin who are | 0:52:52 | 0:52:59 | |
tacked nations for meddling in the
United States of America? Can I ask | 0:52:59 | 0:53:03 | |
about possible drug use of chemical
weapons... What is the prospect of | 0:53:03 | 0:53:08 | |
such chemical weapons had ending up
in the hands of extremists? | 0:53:08 | 0:53:16 | |
I must say that I also condemned the
remarks he has referred to that were | 0:53:16 | 0:53:20 | |
made in relation to certain
communities in the United States. | 0:53:20 | 0:53:24 | |
Can I say to my honourable friend in
relation to the second part of his | 0:53:24 | 0:53:28 | |
question, that what we're talking
about here is a nerve agent that was | 0:53:28 | 0:53:32 | |
developed as part of eight chemical
weapons programme by the Russian | 0:53:32 | 0:53:35 | |
state? I think that will give him a
clear message in relation to this. | 0:53:35 | 0:53:44 | |
Could I fully support what the Prime
Minister said in her statement in | 0:53:44 | 0:53:48 | |
the actions she outlined today? Can
ask the Prime Minister about my | 0:53:48 | 0:53:53 | |
concerns about whether we have in
place a proper strategy to combat | 0:53:53 | 0:53:56 | |
chemical weapons attacks on this
country, particular small-scale | 0:53:56 | 0:54:02 | |
attacks? At the premiership me
reassurance to tell me if work is | 0:54:02 | 0:54:08 | |
continuing to improve that? -- could
the Prime Minister give me | 0:54:08 | 0:54:11 | |
reassurance?
We look at this issue and have a | 0:54:11 | 0:54:13 | |
strategy but will of course ensure,
given what has happened, we will | 0:54:13 | 0:54:17 | |
review of and look again to make
sure we have the best possible | 0:54:17 | 0:54:22 | |
opportunity to ensure that this
cannot happen again. | 0:54:22 | 0:54:28 | |
Whilst welcoming the Prime
Minister's statement as almost | 0:54:28 | 0:54:31 | |
everyone else has, can I join with
the Right honourable member for | 0:54:31 | 0:54:36 | |
Beaconsfield about the important for
the international rule of law? I say | 0:54:36 | 0:54:41 | |
this is an important public decision
for China to decide which side she | 0:54:41 | 0:54:44 | |
is going to sit on in this
arrangement? Can I urge my right | 0:54:44 | 0:54:49 | |
honourable friend to make sure we
make the most energetic steps to | 0:54:49 | 0:54:52 | |
ensure that China stands with the
rest of the civilised world on the | 0:54:52 | 0:54:55 | |
site of law and responsibility.
Thank you for raising the issue in | 0:54:55 | 0:55:03 | |
this way. We want to see the maximum
possible adherence to the | 0:55:03 | 0:55:07 | |
international rules -based order
across the whole world. In a | 0:55:07 | 0:55:11 | |
different context this is a matter
that I raised when I was in China | 0:55:11 | 0:55:14 | |
recently.
This is an extremely important | 0:55:14 | 0:55:18 | |
parliamentary occasion and I think
it's understandable that very large | 0:55:18 | 0:55:21 | |
numbers of members would want to
question the Prime Minister. Can I | 0:55:21 | 0:55:26 | |
request you colleagues that they
should seek to ensure that their | 0:55:26 | 0:55:29 | |
questions are as succinct as the
Prime Minister's replies have been, | 0:55:29 | 0:55:32 | |
and that way we might get through a
very great many more quickly than | 0:55:32 | 0:55:36 | |
otherwise?
I also support the measure the Prime | 0:55:36 | 0:55:42 | |
Minister announced and condemnation
to what is increasingly looking like | 0:55:42 | 0:55:44 | |
a rogue state. On the question of
the integrity of the UN Security | 0:55:44 | 0:55:49 | |
Council, we must now begin to talk
about reform. Russia cannot be | 0:55:49 | 0:55:52 | |
allowed to simply sit pretty,
thumbing its nose at the rest of the | 0:55:52 | 0:55:58 | |
world community, and building itself
immune from the rule of law | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
internationally. Will she initiate
that sort of reform discussion with | 0:56:01 | 0:56:05 | |
the general secretary?
And once again thank the right | 0:56:05 | 0:56:09 | |
honourable gentlemen for the remarks
made today and support given to the | 0:56:09 | 0:56:11 | |
Government, as he did so on Monday?
In relation to the question, we | 0:56:11 | 0:56:18 | |
talked to the United Nations about
reform of the UN in a whole variety | 0:56:18 | 0:56:21 | |
of ways. In a decision made at the
catch 22 is that any decision taken | 0:56:21 | 0:56:27 | |
in the Security Council to reform it
of course could be subject to a veto | 0:56:27 | 0:56:32 | |
by Russia, who are sitting there
are... I think the point has been | 0:56:32 | 0:56:35 | |
raised not just by the right
honourable gentlemen but by others | 0:56:35 | 0:56:37 | |
and this is something we must look
at. | 0:56:37 | 0:56:40 | |
Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister has
underlined to the house at the | 0:56:40 | 0:56:44 | |
Russian state has either been
utterly reckless at best or directly | 0:56:44 | 0:56:50 | |
complicit at worst, in contravening
the movement against employing a | 0:56:50 | 0:57:00 | |
harmful substance on our soil. Will
she take a hardline defences against | 0:57:00 | 0:57:03 | |
hostile State defence? Will she
ensure appropriate balances be | 0:57:03 | 0:57:12 | |
employed against counterterrorism
and counterespionage to ensure our | 0:57:12 | 0:57:16 | |
excellent security and intelligence
agencies are appropriately focused | 0:57:16 | 0:57:18 | |
too, and rightly disrupt those who
would cause harm in our country? | 0:57:18 | 0:57:25 | |
Can I say to my right honourable
friend, also a former Security | 0:57:25 | 0:57:28 | |
Minister who has an understanding of
these issues, that I take the point | 0:57:28 | 0:57:31 | |
he has made, we do indeed constantly
ensure that the balance is right | 0:57:31 | 0:57:37 | |
between counterterrorism and
counterespionage, and we will | 0:57:37 | 0:57:40 | |
continue to ensure that balance is
maintained properly? | 0:57:40 | 0:57:47 | |
Responding with strength and resolve
when your country is under threat is | 0:57:47 | 0:57:52 | |
an essential component of political
leadership. There is a Labour | 0:57:52 | 0:58:00 | |
tradition that understands that, and
it has been understood by prime | 0:58:00 | 0:58:05 | |
ministers of all parties who have
stood at that despatch box. That | 0:58:05 | 0:58:10 | |
means when chemical weapons are
used, we need more than words but | 0:58:10 | 0:58:16 | |
deeds. And can I ask the premise to
what more she can do to enhance our | 0:58:16 | 0:58:22 | |
solidarity with our allies,
particularly at a time when there | 0:58:22 | 0:58:25 | |
are a Nationalist forces trying to
drive wedges between democratic | 0:58:25 | 0:58:30 | |
countries, some of those forces
backed and supported by the Russians | 0:58:30 | 0:58:35 | |
themselves?
Can I first of all say to the right | 0:58:35 | 0:58:40 | |
honourable gentleman that he is of
course absolutely right that there | 0:58:40 | 0:58:45 | |
is a strong tradition in the Labour
Party of recognising the importance | 0:58:45 | 0:58:50 | |
of acting in the national interest
and acting in our national | 0:58:50 | 0:58:54 | |
security's interest when under
threat? And we have seen that from | 0:58:54 | 0:58:58 | |
governments of all complexions over
the years. In relation to the point | 0:58:58 | 0:59:03 | |
about the international activity and
the deeds that we need to take, it | 0:59:03 | 0:59:07 | |
is right and we will be continuing
to talk and we have been speaking to | 0:59:07 | 0:59:13 | |
our allies even before this event
took place about the ways in which | 0:59:13 | 0:59:16 | |
we could deal with and address some
of the activities and actions Russia | 0:59:16 | 0:59:21 | |
has been taking across the countries
in Europe and elsewhere. But we will | 0:59:21 | 0:59:26 | |
redouble those efforts.
Does my right honourable friend | 0:59:26 | 0:59:31 | |
agree that some of the best assets
we have against Russian | 0:59:31 | 0:59:34 | |
disinformation propaganda is the BBC
World Service? Will she look at ways | 0:59:34 | 0:59:39 | |
in which we can extend the reach of
the World Service, perhaps by | 0:59:39 | 0:59:43 | |
incorporating world television?
Dishy agree we need to be careful | 0:59:43 | 0:59:46 | |
not to give any pretext, however
unjustified, for the Russians to | 0:59:46 | 0:59:50 | |
take action against BBC and other
free media outlets? -- does | 0:59:50 | 0:59:56 | |
agree?
I would hope that the Russian state | 0:59:56 | 0:59:58 | |
would be prepared to accept the
importance of free media but sadly | 0:59:58 | 1:00:05 | |
one or two things we heard last
night suggest this may not be the | 1:00:05 | 1:00:09 | |
case. My right honourable friend is
right that the broadcasting of the | 1:00:09 | 1:00:14 | |
BBC, of the World Service, is an
important element of the reach that | 1:00:14 | 1:00:19 | |
the United Kingdom has but it is
important as a part of people who | 1:00:19 | 1:00:25 | |
believe in democracy and the rule of
law and free speech and expression | 1:00:25 | 1:00:28 | |
to have an outlet and she is doing
just that. | 1:00:28 | 1:00:33 | |
Mr Speaker, I was glad to hear the
Prime Minister mentioned the | 1:00:33 | 1:00:36 | |
sanctions and the anti-money
laundering bill and I welcome the | 1:00:36 | 1:00:41 | |
commitment to the Magnitsky
Amendment. But you will understand | 1:00:41 | 1:00:44 | |
that many uptake SLPs and LLPs are
engaged in money-laundering from | 1:00:44 | 1:00:51 | |
Russia via Azerbaijan, Georgia, the
Ukraine through these country. Was | 1:00:51 | 1:00:54 | |
he Speaker Cabinet colleagues and
bring forward sanctions under the | 1:00:54 | 1:01:01 | |
anti-money-laundering bill to tackle
these corrupt elites, because money | 1:01:01 | 1:01:05 | |
is happening -- money-laundering is
happening via capital has at the | 1:01:05 | 1:01:15 | |
moment.
We have been working with the | 1:01:15 | 1:01:16 | |
financial sector on ways we can
improve the action we are taking | 1:01:16 | 1:01:21 | |
against money-laundering, and this
is one of the things I expect the | 1:01:21 | 1:01:25 | |
National economic crime Centre to
look at closely. | 1:01:25 | 1:01:28 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker, and I welcome
the action of my right honourable | 1:01:28 | 1:01:32 | |
friend as she announced today. One
way Russia seeks to extend influence | 1:01:32 | 1:01:37 | |
in Europe is building relationships
of energy dependence. Is my right | 1:01:37 | 1:01:44 | |
honourable friend aware that we have
recently begun to receive Russian | 1:01:44 | 1:01:47 | |
natural gas? We need to bring in
extra energy resources from Qatar, | 1:01:47 | 1:01:55 | |
Malaysia and Australia who are more
than willing to sell to us, allies? | 1:01:55 | 1:01:59 | |
When looking to gas supplies, we are
looking to other countries and I | 1:01:59 | 1:02:02 | |
confirm this.
Can I say I am another one who | 1:02:02 | 1:02:07 | |
supports the statement she has made
today? As a strong advocate for the | 1:02:07 | 1:02:12 | |
defence and security of our country.
Mechanic draw attention to something | 1:02:12 | 1:02:15 | |
I don't want to get lost in what she
said, while our response must be | 1:02:15 | 1:02:18 | |
robust, it must also remain true to
our values, and as such, with the | 1:02:18 | 1:02:22 | |
prime ministers say a bit about
something I think she has done, | 1:02:22 | 1:02:26 | |
which is not disabled band Russia
today, which actually I think is a | 1:02:26 | 1:02:30 | |
strong point to make -- it is not to
say we will ban Russia Today. We | 1:02:30 | 1:02:38 | |
Also Believe in the rule of law and
democracy. | 1:02:38 | 1:02:42 | |
We believe in the rule of law and
democracy and free media. | 1:02:42 | 1:02:45 | |
The question of the status of Russia
Today A a broadcasting in the United | 1:02:45 | 1:02:51 | |
Kingdom is not a matter for the
Government but a matter for the | 1:02:51 | 1:02:55 | |
independent Ofcom to consider.
The premise that was correct to say | 1:02:55 | 1:02:59 | |
that our argument is not the Russian
people but with the Russian state | 1:02:59 | 1:03:02 | |
which has sponsored murder on our
streets. Today we have heard | 1:03:02 | 1:03:06 | |
absolute solidarity from across the
western world and was political | 1:03:06 | 1:03:09 | |
parties, but what chairman of
support has my right honourable | 1:03:09 | 1:03:12 | |
friend received from the one
political party which gives | 1:03:12 | 1:03:15 | |
unequivocal 100% backing to the
Leader of the Opposition, the | 1:03:15 | 1:03:19 | |
commonest party of Great Britain? --
the Communist Party of Great | 1:03:19 | 1:03:23 | |
Britain.
It believe I have received any such | 1:03:23 | 1:03:30 | |
statement from the Communist Party
of Great Britain although I did | 1:03:30 | 1:03:33 | |
notice that a matter of one or two
weeks ago they did say that they | 1:03:33 | 1:03:37 | |
were not going to be standing as
candidates against where the Labour | 1:03:37 | 1:03:42 | |
Party were standing and they now
felt more comfortable in working | 1:03:42 | 1:03:45 | |
with the Labour Party.
I strongly work on the Prime | 1:03:45 | 1:03:50 | |
Minister's statement but I urge her
to go further in using energy policy | 1:03:50 | 1:03:55 | |
as a new way of attacking the
Russian threat. While there were | 1:03:55 | 1:03:58 | |
significant British energy interests
in Russia, will acknowledge that... | 1:03:58 | 1:04:04 | |
Anti-development in the military and
intelligence assets are primarily | 1:04:04 | 1:04:07 | |
funded by the sale of Russian fossil
fuels. Callander for comment at | 1:04:07 | 1:04:14 | |
looking -- can I comment to look the
EU energy strategy largely written | 1:04:14 | 1:04:21 | |
in Russia and reducing dependency on
fossil fuels? | 1:04:21 | 1:04:26 | |
I understand this about the extent
to which Russia uses its energy as a | 1:04:26 | 1:04:31 | |
means to influence and have an
impact on those countries that are | 1:04:31 | 1:04:35 | |
in receipt of it and also the
finances it provides from what is an | 1:04:35 | 1:04:40 | |
important one, and I can assure him
that as we continue to discuss with | 1:04:40 | 1:04:45 | |
the European Union not just our
energy security but that wider | 1:04:45 | 1:04:50 | |
energy security that Mac many
members of this and the other House | 1:04:50 | 1:04:55 | |
are members of multilateral
parliamentary organisations. | 1:04:55 | 1:04:59 | |
Like the Council of Europe and the
Nato parliamentary assembly... Would | 1:04:59 | 1:05:03 | |
my right honourable friend agree
that a way we can help get behind | 1:05:03 | 1:05:05 | |
her leadership and the Government
position on this is to when we | 1:05:05 | 1:05:10 | |
attend events get the message across
to explain the policies of this | 1:05:10 | 1:05:13 | |
Government, to explain what is
happening and why our allies should | 1:05:13 | 1:05:16 | |
be supporting us? | 1:05:16 | 1:05:20 | |
I think he has raised an extremely
valuable point and I welcome that | 1:05:20 | 1:05:24 | |
suggestion and would encourage him
and other members of this house in | 1:05:24 | 1:05:27 | |
the multilateral organisations to do
just that. The Prime Minister will | 1:05:27 | 1:05:32 | |
know I do not shy away from
criticising international policies | 1:05:32 | 1:05:36 | |
when they get it wrong. She should
know that she has my full and | 1:05:36 | 1:05:40 | |
unequivocal support for the measure
she has set out, particularly in | 1:05:40 | 1:05:43 | |
light of the revelations coming out
of the Robert Mueller inquiry, will | 1:05:43 | 1:05:48 | |
she insurers that she will leave no
stone unturned when examining the | 1:05:48 | 1:05:53 | |
Russian State's attempts to subvert
parliamentary democracy whether by | 1:05:53 | 1:05:59 | |
financial, propaganda, and other
means, however uncomfortable some of | 1:05:59 | 1:06:01 | |
those findings may be for us? I am
very happy to give that commitment | 1:06:01 | 1:06:06 | |
and thank you for the Commons he has
made today. I know that he is not | 1:06:06 | 1:06:09 | |
backward in coming forwards when he
wishes to criticise the Government, | 1:06:09 | 1:06:12 | |
but he has given support to the
government not just today but on | 1:06:12 | 1:06:15 | |
Monday as well. I welcome that and
thank him for it. I also welcome my | 1:06:15 | 1:06:22 | |
right honourable friend's clear,
decisive actions she is taking. Can | 1:06:22 | 1:06:26 | |
she reassure the British citizens
that are looking to travel to Russia | 1:06:26 | 1:06:29 | |
over the coming weeks and months
that regular updates will be | 1:06:29 | 1:06:33 | |
provided by the Commonwealth office
and their safety will be paramount? | 1:06:33 | 1:06:38 | |
I can give that assurance to my
honourable friend. I suggest to | 1:06:38 | 1:06:42 | |
those that do wish to travel to
Russia that they do ensure they are | 1:06:42 | 1:06:45 | |
checking the Foreign Office advice.
My understanding is that the travel | 1:06:45 | 1:06:47 | |
advice has not changed at this
stage. But people should check that | 1:06:47 | 1:06:51 | |
travel advice before they move. This
is a day for the house to speak as | 1:06:51 | 1:06:58 | |
one for the nation. She will be
reassured to hear that a clear | 1:06:58 | 1:07:03 | |
majority of Labour MPs, alongside
the leaders of every other party, | 1:07:03 | 1:07:06 | |
support the firm stance she has
taken. Can I ask, is she prepared | 1:07:06 | 1:07:12 | |
that this situation will probably
get more difficult before it gets | 1:07:12 | 1:07:18 | |
better? And is she prepared to stay
the course, to face down this | 1:07:18 | 1:07:23 | |
international bully and wrecker of
the rule of all across the world? | 1:07:23 | 1:07:35 | |
Can I thank the honourable gentleman
for the remarks he has made, and he | 1:07:35 | 1:07:38 | |
made a strong statement on Monday as
well. Can I assure him that I am | 1:07:38 | 1:07:42 | |
this government will stay the
course. We recognise that there may | 1:07:42 | 1:07:46 | |
be further Russian provocation. If
there is, we have further measures | 1:07:46 | 1:07:49 | |
we can deploy in relation to that.
But I think it is important that we, | 1:07:49 | 1:07:54 | |
and we will encourage international
allies to do this as well, that we | 1:07:54 | 1:07:57 | |
recognise this is an important
moment to stand up and say to | 1:07:57 | 1:08:02 | |
Russia, no, you cannot do this. The
Russian economy is a fraction, but | 1:08:02 | 1:08:08 | |
their expenditure on offensive
capability is a multiple of hours. | 1:08:08 | 1:08:10 | |
Is there a lesson there? Well, can I
say to my right honourable friend | 1:08:10 | 1:08:18 | |
that, of course, we do constantly
look at the resources that we are | 1:08:18 | 1:08:21 | |
putting in to ensure our national
security, which is assured across a | 1:08:21 | 1:08:26 | |
number of apartments in Government,
and we continue to do so. Can I | 1:08:26 | 1:08:31 | |
welcome the Prime Minister's a
response, which she set out today? | 1:08:31 | 1:08:36 | |
Further to the confirmation that no
minister member of the Royal family | 1:08:36 | 1:08:38 | |
will be attending the World Cup this
summer, does she believe this should | 1:08:38 | 1:08:41 | |
also extend to senior FA officials,
and will she ask Nato allies to join | 1:08:41 | 1:08:49 | |
us in this endeavour? I think the
attendance at sporting events is a | 1:08:49 | 1:08:57 | |
matter for these sporting
authorities. It is a matter for | 1:08:57 | 1:08:59 | |
them. They will be aware of the
statement I have made today. They | 1:08:59 | 1:09:02 | |
will be aware that we say that no
ministers and members of the Royal | 1:09:02 | 1:09:05 | |
family will be attending the World
Cup, and I am sure they will want to | 1:09:05 | 1:09:09 | |
be considering their position. As
chair of the Interparliamentary | 1:09:09 | 1:09:15 | |
Union, I led a delegation to St
Petersburg and was met by Russian | 1:09:15 | 1:09:21 | |
people with great warmth and
hospitality. Will she stress that | 1:09:21 | 1:09:27 | |
our problem is not with them, it is
with their appalling leadership, and | 1:09:27 | 1:09:31 | |
the Russian ambassador has made it
clear that we should expect | 1:09:31 | 1:09:34 | |
retaliation, so will she send a
clear signal to him and Moscow that | 1:09:34 | 1:09:37 | |
the United Kingdom will not be
threatened? I am grateful to him for | 1:09:37 | 1:09:45 | |
the remarks that he has made. I
think last night I saw the Russian | 1:09:45 | 1:09:49 | |
ambassador being quoted as saying
that Russia was not a country that | 1:09:49 | 1:09:54 | |
accepted ultimatums. Well, I can say
to my right honourable friend and | 1:09:54 | 1:09:58 | |
others that the United Kingdom is
not a country that accepts threats | 1:09:58 | 1:10:03 | |
and we will stand against them. I
welcome the Prime Minister's | 1:10:03 | 1:10:07 | |
reminder that we have no problem
whatsoever with the peoples of the | 1:10:07 | 1:10:13 | |
Russian Federation, who are, after
all, living under Putin's | 1:10:13 | 1:10:17 | |
dictatorship all the time. The
action that has to be taken against | 1:10:17 | 1:10:20 | |
Putin will make it more difficult
for the organisations that seek to | 1:10:20 | 1:10:24 | |
keep good relations with the people
of the Russian Federation. Is there | 1:10:24 | 1:10:26 | |
anything that the government can do
that can help them continue the good | 1:10:26 | 1:10:33 | |
work, even as we impose strict
sanctions against their leader? What | 1:10:33 | 1:10:37 | |
is important, in my statement, and
this is the point my right | 1:10:37 | 1:10:40 | |
honourable friend made in his
previous question, that we are very | 1:10:40 | 1:10:42 | |
clear that we have no argument with
the Russian people. It is with the | 1:10:42 | 1:10:47 | |
Russian state, the Russian
government and their actions that we | 1:10:47 | 1:10:49 | |
are concerned. I think in the
response that we give, it is | 1:10:49 | 1:10:55 | |
important that we make that clear,
not just in words, but in actions. | 1:10:55 | 1:10:59 | |
That is why what I have talked about
today is a response that affects the | 1:10:59 | 1:11:03 | |
Russian state and the Russian
government, and not the Russian | 1:11:03 | 1:11:05 | |
people. | 1:11:05 | 1:11:08 | |
With regards to the longer term,
given the actions of the Russian | 1:11:09 | 1:11:13 | |
state under President Putin, hasn't
the time now come to have a | 1:11:13 | 1:11:17 | |
fundamental reassessment of our
defence spending, in collaboration, | 1:11:17 | 1:11:23 | |
preferably, with our allies, but
alone if not? I say to my honourable | 1:11:23 | 1:11:30 | |
friend, as he will know, we are one
of the limited number of countries | 1:11:30 | 1:11:33 | |
within Nato that maintains our
commitment to spending 2% of our GDP | 1:11:33 | 1:11:37 | |
on defence. We do have, as I am sure
he is aware, the modernising defence | 1:11:37 | 1:11:42 | |
programme that is being undertaken
at the moment, alongside the | 1:11:42 | 1:11:47 | |
national security capability review.
It is important that we are able to | 1:11:47 | 1:11:50 | |
deal with a variety of threats that
we face. But I would say to my | 1:11:50 | 1:11:54 | |
honourable friend, as I have to
other members of this house, that in | 1:11:54 | 1:11:58 | |
looking at how we deal with those
threats, not all of them will be | 1:11:58 | 1:12:01 | |
dealt with in a way that would
conventionally be considered as a | 1:12:01 | 1:12:05 | |
matter for the Ministry of Defence.
The Prime Minister has rightly said | 1:12:05 | 1:12:09 | |
that the attacks in Britain have
been part of an ongoing, contempt of | 1:12:09 | 1:12:20 | |
Britain, the rule of law and values.
There has also been a contempt of | 1:12:20 | 1:12:24 | |
our alliances, political and
military. In moving forward, will | 1:12:24 | 1:12:29 | |
the Prime Minister work with those
political and military alliances so | 1:12:29 | 1:12:32 | |
that, together, we have a root and
branch removal of Russian | 1:12:32 | 1:12:39 | |
interference in our political,
higher education and financial | 1:12:39 | 1:12:42 | |
institutions? Let this be a marker.
No more, now they will fear what we | 1:12:42 | 1:12:49 | |
will do to hit back on the
interference they have shown us? I | 1:12:49 | 1:12:53 | |
thank the Honourable Member for the
commitment she has shown us a | 1:12:53 | 1:12:58 | |
parliamentarian to the alliance we
have through Nato, which is very | 1:12:58 | 1:13:01 | |
important and the bedrock of
European defence. I will certainly | 1:13:01 | 1:13:04 | |
say that we will continue to work
through those alliances to ensure we | 1:13:04 | 1:13:07 | |
are sending a very clear message
that is not acceptable. Thank you, | 1:13:07 | 1:13:13 | |
Mr Speaker. Can I commend the Prime
Minister on her decisive and | 1:13:13 | 1:13:19 | |
vigorous action in response to what
was, after all, an attack on the | 1:13:19 | 1:13:22 | |
United Kingdom? In some ways it had
flashes of the iron lady about it. | 1:13:22 | 1:13:29 | |
But it was also in stark contrast to
the attitude of the Leader of the | 1:13:29 | 1:13:34 | |
Opposition, who simply could not
bring himself to condemn Russia for | 1:13:34 | 1:13:40 | |
this outrageous act. He simply
couldn't do it. Is that not because | 1:13:40 | 1:13:46 | |
he remains, at heart, what he has
always been, a CND badge wearing | 1:13:46 | 1:13:55 | |
apologist for the Russian state? Can
I say to my honourable friend that I | 1:13:55 | 1:14:00 | |
think people will take their own
conclusions from what they have | 1:14:00 | 1:14:03 | |
heard today. I can also say to my
honourable friend but I am sure he, | 1:14:03 | 1:14:06 | |
as I do, take great reassurance from
the positive messages of support | 1:14:06 | 1:14:11 | |
that have come from the Labour
backbenchers. Our way of life in | 1:14:11 | 1:14:19 | |
this country, and in the West, is
based on democracy, human rights and | 1:14:19 | 1:14:23 | |
the rule of law. It should be
defended. | 1:14:23 | 1:14:26 | |
Strongly held opinions have been
expressed, everybody can consult the | 1:14:30 | 1:14:33 | |
record. I understand that there is
an intensity of feeling. The | 1:14:33 | 1:14:38 | |
honourable gentleman for such field
must have his question heard, then | 1:14:38 | 1:14:42 | |
the answer will be heard. Our way of
life in this country, and in the | 1:14:42 | 1:14:49 | |
West, is based on human rights,
democracy and the rules of law. It | 1:14:49 | 1:14:53 | |
should be defended. That is why the
Prime Minister is right to bring | 1:14:53 | 1:14:58 | |
forward sanctions against the state,
a state that does not believe in | 1:14:58 | 1:15:02 | |
those principles. Could the Prime
Minister give a commitment to come | 1:15:02 | 1:15:05 | |
back to the house, she feels the
need for further consideration of | 1:15:05 | 1:15:08 | |
sanctions should be made? The
honourable gentleman has raised an | 1:15:08 | 1:15:13 | |
important point. I said in my
statement that we had further | 1:15:13 | 1:15:16 | |
measures that we might wish to
deploy if we were subjected to | 1:15:16 | 1:15:21 | |
further Russian provocation. If we
choose to do so, I will come back to | 1:15:21 | 1:15:24 | |
this house. We will leave the House
of Commons. The announcement from | 1:15:24 | 1:15:30 | |
the Prime Minister | 1:15:30 | 1:15:31 | |
Rights and the rule of law. Will my
right arm or friend ensure that we | 1:15:39 | 1:15:43 | |
can expel Russia from the Council of
Europe as reprisal? It's continuing | 1:15:43 | 1:15:53 | |
membership seems to fly in the face
of our commitment to those important | 1:15:53 | 1:15:57 | |
values? My right honourable friend
has raised an important point. Can I | 1:15:57 | 1:16:01 | |
submit say that I do not think it is
hands only of the United Kingdom to | 1:16:01 | 1:16:05 | |
expel Russia from the Council of
Europe, but as he would have heard, | 1:16:05 | 1:16:08 | |
our item or friend the member of
Newbury has made the point that | 1:16:08 | 1:16:12 | |
members of the house who are members
of such multilateral groupings | 1:16:12 | 1:16:16 | |
should come I think, be making every
effort to make a point about the | 1:16:16 | 1:16:20 | |
illegitimate activity that has been
undertaken by Russia. I welcome very | 1:16:20 | 1:16:26 | |
much the Prime Minister's statement
today, the measures she has | 1:16:26 | 1:16:30 | |
announced, which will only be
strengthened if our allies take | 1:16:30 | 1:16:34 | |
similar action. Can she say more
about Nato, and whether she will be | 1:16:34 | 1:16:38 | |
bringing together Nato heads of
state and Government to discuss a | 1:16:38 | 1:16:42 | |
coordinated response? As I think I
have said earlier in response, the | 1:16:42 | 1:16:48 | |
Nato Council will be meeting
tomorrow to discuss this particular | 1:16:48 | 1:16:51 | |
issue. I will be talking to a number
of allies that are within Nato about | 1:16:51 | 1:16:58 | |
coordination of the response. As I
said earlier, in response to a | 1:16:58 | 1:17:01 | |
previous question, they have been
waiting to hear the details of the | 1:17:01 | 1:17:05 | |
response, which I brought first to
Parliament. The Prime Minister is | 1:17:05 | 1:17:09 | |
clearly aware that the Kremlin is
using a very full spectrum of tools | 1:17:09 | 1:17:13 | |
in what it considers to be its new
generation warfare against the West. | 1:17:13 | 1:17:18 | |
Assassination is one element of
that. Is the Prime Minister aware of | 1:17:18 | 1:17:21 | |
the important work that was done in
the 70s and 80s by the Senate | 1:17:21 | 1:17:25 | |
intelligence committee in the United
States to methodically exposed | 1:17:25 | 1:17:33 | |
Russian espionage and
disinformation. In that era it was | 1:17:33 | 1:17:37 | |
called active measures. Will she
consider something similar for this | 1:17:37 | 1:17:40 | |
country now, because the light of
truth, shining light Russian | 1:17:40 | 1:17:45 | |
subversion today, however one calls
it, is a critical part of defending | 1:17:45 | 1:17:52 | |
democracy and undermining Russian
subversion? Thank you. Yes, can I | 1:17:52 | 1:17:55 | |
say to my honourable friend that I
was not aware of the details of the | 1:17:55 | 1:17:59 | |
work of the Senate committee that he
has referred to. It is the case that | 1:17:59 | 1:18:04 | |
this is a government that is not
afraid to call a Russian actions in | 1:18:04 | 1:18:07 | |
public when we see those actions
taking place. I take the point he's | 1:18:07 | 1:18:11 | |
making about a more detailed and
forensic look at the activities of | 1:18:11 | 1:18:15 | |
the Russian state and I would
certainly consider that. In | 1:18:15 | 1:18:20 | |
supporting the Prime Minister's
strategy, can I remind them that, | 1:18:20 | 1:18:23 | |
during the Putin years, he has
become emboldened, sometimes because | 1:18:23 | 1:18:28 | |
our allies, the Europeans and
internationally, have not always | 1:18:28 | 1:18:31 | |
been prepared to face down that kind
of aggression, relative to their | 1:18:31 | 1:18:37 | |
commercial interests? If we are
going to stay the course, and she | 1:18:37 | 1:18:40 | |
remind our allies that they are
aren't much as a threat? He makes an | 1:18:40 | 1:18:50 | |
important point, it could have
happened in any one of a number of | 1:18:50 | 1:18:53 | |
countries. I think it is important,
and other countries are seeing other | 1:18:53 | 1:18:56 | |
actions being taken by Russia, such
as attempts to interfere in | 1:18:56 | 1:19:01 | |
elections and propaganda and
disinformation campaigns. It is | 1:19:01 | 1:19:03 | |
important that we do, as far as
possible, work together. I also add | 1:19:03 | 1:19:11 | |
my support for the cool, calm and
collected way that she has responded | 1:19:11 | 1:19:16 | |
to a serious threat to this country.
Would you be pleased to know that | 1:19:16 | 1:19:19 | |
both the First Minister of Wales and
the First Minister in Scotland have | 1:19:19 | 1:19:23 | |
both tweeted their support for the
Prime Minister and the action she | 1:19:23 | 1:19:29 | |
has taken? Would she undertakes to
always keep the devolved | 1:19:29 | 1:19:33 | |
administrations fully informed of
what is happening? I thank my right | 1:19:33 | 1:19:37 | |
honourable friend for letting me
know of the tweets that having put | 1:19:37 | 1:19:41 | |
out by the first ministers in
Scotland Wales. I am pleased to say | 1:19:41 | 1:19:45 | |
I will be meeting both of those
first ministers later this afternoon | 1:19:45 | 1:19:49 | |
as we, both in bilateral and in the
meeting, and I certainly undertake, | 1:19:49 | 1:19:55 | |
we have been keeping the devolved
administrations aware of what we | 1:19:55 | 1:19:58 | |
have been doing and I certainly
undertake to continue to do that. | 1:19:58 | 1:20:02 | |
The Prime Minister has made the
right call on the facts before her | 1:20:02 | 1:20:05 | |
today and her judgment is correct in
this matter. Could she also look at | 1:20:05 | 1:20:11 | |
the issue of transport of materials
and assets from other countries? | 1:20:11 | 1:20:15 | |
Because material will often not go
direct from Moscow to London. Will | 1:20:15 | 1:20:19 | |
she ensure that our European
partners and Nato partners take the | 1:20:19 | 1:20:22 | |
same action if evidence leads to
that conclusion? | 1:20:22 | 1:20:28 | |
That is an important point that has
been raised. We will be looking at | 1:20:29 | 1:20:32 | |
the issue of movement of materials
and as I indicated in my speech, | 1:20:32 | 1:20:36 | |
looking at further action we can be
taken not just in relation to | 1:20:36 | 1:20:41 | |
movement of materials but people as
well. This is something we would be | 1:20:41 | 1:20:45 | |
discussing with our allies. The
Prime Minister has such widespread | 1:20:45 | 1:20:50 | |
support because she has learnt the
lesson of history, that tyrants must | 1:20:50 | 1:20:54 | |
be stood up to and can I encourage
her to impose a freeze on assets so | 1:20:54 | 1:20:59 | |
that people do not have the
opportunity to take them out of the | 1:20:59 | 1:21:02 | |
country in the short term and to
boost the military resources in | 1:21:02 | 1:21:05 | |
Estonia where we have 800 troops
already to show very tangibly that | 1:21:05 | 1:21:11 | |
we will support our friends and
allies who may also be at risk from | 1:21:11 | 1:21:15 | |
Russia? I thank my honourable friend
for his remarks. As I said in my | 1:21:15 | 1:21:20 | |
statement, we will freeze Russian
state assets if they may be used to | 1:21:20 | 1:21:25 | |
threaten the life or property of UK
nationals or residents. I was | 1:21:25 | 1:21:30 | |
pleased to visit the troops we had
in Estonia last September. We are of | 1:21:30 | 1:21:35 | |
course there with other allies that
I was pleased that at the | 1:21:35 | 1:21:38 | |
Anglo-French summit that we held in
January, President Macron committed | 1:21:38 | 1:21:42 | |
to continuing contingent of French
troops joining our troops in Estonia | 1:21:42 | 1:21:49 | |
which is a collective symbol of our
determination to protect the West | 1:21:49 | 1:21:51 | |
against Russia. Can I welcome the
Prime Minister's statement. Given | 1:21:51 | 1:22:00 | |
the inevitable focus over recent
years over Isis and the Terrorism at | 1:22:00 | 1:22:03 | |
home, is the Prime Minister content
that across Government, the Home | 1:22:03 | 1:22:06 | |
Office and security services and
other agencies, we have enough | 1:22:06 | 1:22:11 | |
specific Russian expertise or do we
need to increase that expertise | 1:22:11 | 1:22:15 | |
given this event and many others
which show that the Russian | 1:22:15 | 1:22:19 | |
Government are undermining our
democracy? The honourable lady is | 1:22:19 | 1:22:23 | |
right that in recent years there has
been an appropriate and correct | 1:22:23 | 1:22:28 | |
focus on counterterrorism but that
doesn't mean that we haven't been | 1:22:28 | 1:22:30 | |
looking at hostile state activity,
because we indeed have. We keep | 1:22:30 | 1:22:36 | |
these in balance as we go forward
and assess the threats we are facing | 1:22:36 | 1:22:39 | |
and will continue to do so. Ever
since Russian troops first entered | 1:22:39 | 1:22:46 | |
Ukraine, friends for many different
countries have told me how false | 1:22:46 | 1:22:52 | |
news stories emanating from Russian
sources have been used to | 1:22:52 | 1:22:54 | |
aggressively influence public
opinion to undermine legitimate | 1:22:54 | 1:23:01 | |
democracies. They use social media
platforms and traditional media. | 1:23:01 | 1:23:08 | |
Will you call, Prime Minister, can
you call for an international | 1:23:08 | 1:23:11 | |
strategy to deal with... At the Nato
summit in July? I can say to my | 1:23:11 | 1:23:27 | |
honourable friend that the issue of
Russian news of disinformation and | 1:23:27 | 1:23:30 | |
propaganda is something we have
discussed on the European Union | 1:23:30 | 1:23:36 | |
Council at previous meetings and I
would expect to raise it again. We | 1:23:36 | 1:23:40 | |
do recognise the importance of the
work being done by the Kremlin in | 1:23:40 | 1:23:43 | |
terms of disinformation campaigns.
In doing that, we will of course | 1:23:43 | 1:23:50 | |
work with our international allies. | 1:23:50 | 1:24:00 | |
We could probably accommodate
everybody but if there are going to | 1:24:01 | 1:24:05 | |
be mini speeches, some might lose
out. The Prime Minister will | 1:24:05 | 1:24:11 | |
remember the pitch battles in Paris.
Will she reappraise the protection | 1:24:11 | 1:24:18 | |
that will be afforded to football
fans if they travel? | 1:24:18 | 1:24:30 | |
If we can persuade him to return to
the rule of law, then we can rebuild | 1:24:51 | 1:24:57 | |
those relationships. I thank my
honourable friend for his question. | 1:24:57 | 1:25:01 | |
As I have said before, our argument
is not with the Russians. We | 1:25:01 | 1:25:08 | |
continue to recognise that this is
the actions of the Russian state. | 1:25:08 | 1:25:13 | |
Many of us looked at the post-Soviet
Russia with hope when Matt was first | 1:25:13 | 1:25:18 | |
developed but sadly what we have
seen from the way in which President | 1:25:18 | 1:25:22 | |
Putin has been dealing with these
measures... | 1:25:22 | 1:25:34 | |
President Trump has spoken out
against this particular incident and | 1:25:54 | 1:26:00 | |
he and I will be continuing to
speak, and the Beano station in | 1:26:00 | 1:26:06 | |
America are one of the
administrations we would hope would | 1:26:06 | 1:26:11 | |
work alongside us in collaboration.
Can I ask that all suspicious deaths | 1:26:11 | 1:26:23 | |
should be thoroughly investigated by
the police and if the Russian | 1:26:23 | 1:26:26 | |
Government is implicated in any of
those deaths, she stands by to take | 1:26:26 | 1:26:30 | |
further tough measures against that
state? At the moment the police are | 1:26:30 | 1:26:48 | |
focusing on this investigation, but
I am sure they will look at that | 1:26:48 | 1:26:52 | |
matter in due course. The Council of
Europe is ready been as one of the | 1:26:52 | 1:26:58 | |
platforms in which we engage with
with Russia. The resource that an | 1:26:58 | 1:27:08 | |
enquiry into the recent death. Can
the web be spread that we need this | 1:27:08 | 1:27:15 | |
law across Europe? I'm prepared to
look at the proposal be honourable | 1:27:15 | 1:27:21 | |
lady has made. There has been a
marked increase in the Balkans where | 1:27:21 | 1:27:30 | |
curbs are used to dissuade other
areas from joining. My honourable | 1:27:30 | 1:27:41 | |
friend raises an important point and
we are happy to look at the session | 1:27:41 | 1:27:45 | |
of those countries to Nato and I am
pleased that we will be holding a | 1:27:45 | 1:27:51 | |
Western Balkans summit in July. I
endorse the actions the Prime | 1:27:51 | 1:27:57 | |
Minister has taken and the
unavoidable conclusion that she has | 1:27:57 | 1:28:00 | |
come to. What she is disappointed as
I was that shortly after the | 1:28:00 | 1:28:04 | |
powerful and excellent Bateman from
Secretary of State Tillerson that he | 1:28:04 | 1:28:09 | |
lost his job in the Trump
administration? Will she passed on a | 1:28:09 | 1:28:13 | |
message to President Trump regarding
how much we supported the words of | 1:28:13 | 1:28:20 | |
Mr Tillerson? Can I said to the
honourable gentleman who forms part | 1:28:20 | 1:28:32 | |
of the American Administration is up
to the president. Mr Tillerson gave | 1:28:32 | 1:28:42 | |
a robust comments after this
incident took place and we will be | 1:28:42 | 1:28:46 | |
working with his replacement to make
sure America is one other allies | 1:28:46 | 1:28:50 | |
that stands us. Does the Prime
Minister agreed with me we need to | 1:28:50 | 1:29:00 | |
do more to call the Putin regime
out, including recognising their | 1:29:00 | 1:29:04 | |
occupation because that is what it
is, and occupation of Georgia. | 1:29:04 | 1:29:17 | |
Can I thank the Prime Minister for
her statement and are concerned that | 1:29:22 | 1:29:25 | |
she expressed to me yesterday
regarding the surprise substances | 1:29:25 | 1:29:32 | |
that we received in our parliament
should post? Can we go a bit faster | 1:29:32 | 1:29:47 | |
on the registers of property, many
which are Russian owned. If they | 1:29:47 | 1:29:51 | |
were in place by now, we would know
whether assets are to freeze. I | 1:29:51 | 1:29:57 | |
reiterate the comments I made in
Prime Minister's Questions that this | 1:29:57 | 1:30:00 | |
was an appalling act taken against
mostly members of this house and a | 1:30:00 | 1:30:09 | |
full investigation is taking place.
In relation to the public register | 1:30:09 | 1:30:14 | |
of ownership, this is a matter I
have discussed with the Business | 1:30:14 | 1:30:17 | |
Secretary and it is the intention of
the government to bring it forward | 1:30:17 | 1:30:20 | |
so that we can shine a light on this
particular issue. The political | 1:30:20 | 1:30:31 | |
journalist Tom Newton Dunn has said
that he does not believe there is | 1:30:31 | 1:30:36 | |
proof that Russia was responsible
for the attack in Salisbury. Come my | 1:30:36 | 1:30:48 | |
right honourable friend reiterate
the faith he has in the secret | 1:30:48 | 1:30:54 | |
services. He has asked for the Prime
Minister's view on the intelligence | 1:30:54 | 1:31:06 | |
services. I am shocked by the
statement put out. It's clear by the | 1:31:06 | 1:31:17 | |
remarks made from backbenchers of
the Labour Party that they will be | 1:31:17 | 1:31:20 | |
equally concerned about that remark.
They stand. Behind the government in | 1:31:20 | 1:31:25 | |
the analysis we have shown an action
have taken. Are in 2010, Gareth | 1:31:25 | 1:31:33 | |
Williams, a British security
employee was found locked in a | 1:31:33 | 1:31:39 | |
holdall naked and decomposing. A
professional contortionist couldn't | 1:31:39 | 1:31:45 | |
get out of the bag himself. In light
of the events with Russia, will she | 1:31:45 | 1:31:49 | |
now reopen and look to find out if
Mr Williams was indeed another | 1:31:49 | 1:31:53 | |
victim of Vladimir Putin? I recall
the case that the honourable | 1:31:53 | 1:31:57 | |
gentleman has raised. As I said in
response to one of my honourable | 1:31:57 | 1:32:04 | |
friend on this side of the House,
matters of investigation into | 1:32:04 | 1:32:07 | |
criminal activity that's taken place
will be a matter for the police to | 1:32:07 | 1:32:10 | |
determine whether or not they reopen
that case. Under half of the people | 1:32:10 | 1:32:17 | |
of South Leicestershire, may I
welcome the Prime Minister's robust | 1:32:17 | 1:32:20 | |
but measured statement? On Monday I
met with BBC world's senior | 1:32:20 | 1:32:28 | |
management at BBC Broadcasting House
and was the Prime Minister is | 1:32:28 | 1:32:30 | |
correct to have said that the
honourable member for Gedling that | 1:32:30 | 1:32:39 | |
broadcasting is a matter for Ofcom,
funding isn't. Will she sure this | 1:32:39 | 1:32:45 | |
has today that if BBC World Service
needs additional funding to combat | 1:32:45 | 1:32:50 | |
Russia today, particularly in the
Baltic and Balkans, will she | 1:32:50 | 1:32:57 | |
undertake to speak to the trade
Secretary of the Treasury? My | 1:32:57 | 1:33:01 | |
understanding is that discussions
are taking place around the funding | 1:33:01 | 1:33:06 | |
of the world Service and we expect a
resolution in due course. I would | 1:33:06 | 1:33:10 | |
like to add my full support to the
Prime Minister's robust support | 1:33:10 | 1:33:13 | |
today. As director of the British
Council in St Petersburg from 2005 | 1:33:13 | 1:33:20 | |
and 52 2008, I have first-hand
experience of the utterly ruthless | 1:33:20 | 1:33:23 | |
way in which the Russian state can
operate. Does the Prime Minister | 1:33:23 | 1:33:32 | |
share my concern that holding the
World Cup in Russia this summer | 1:33:32 | 1:33:39 | |
could be seen as a vindication of
his actions, and in which case would | 1:33:39 | 1:33:45 | |
she agree that it could potentially
be postponed and held in a more | 1:33:45 | 1:33:48 | |
neutral country? I thank the
gentleman for his support and it's | 1:33:48 | 1:33:57 | |
particularly value given his
experience with the British Council. | 1:33:57 | 1:34:01 | |
Sport is a matter for the sporting
30s. As regards a sporting operated | 1:34:01 | 1:34:05 | |
in the United Kingdom, they will
have heard what I said about the | 1:34:05 | 1:34:08 | |
actions of the Russian state today.
This attack could have burned so | 1:34:08 | 1:34:16 | |
much worse. What if a group of
schoolchildren playing in the park | 1:34:16 | 1:34:20 | |
had been the first to have
approached the victims when they | 1:34:20 | 1:34:23 | |
were collapsed? Does the Prime
Minister therefore share my disgust | 1:34:23 | 1:34:27 | |
that the perpetrators of this crime
must have known this? The honourable | 1:34:27 | 1:34:34 | |
gentleman is absolutely right. Of
course we do have one other | 1:34:34 | 1:34:39 | |
individual in Detective Sergeant
Nick Bailey who was affected as a | 1:34:39 | 1:34:43 | |
first responder by this act that
took place but it could have been so | 1:34:43 | 1:34:47 | |
different, as he says, and it is
thanks to the prompt action of the | 1:34:47 | 1:34:51 | |
emergency services in relation to
this that the matter was and has | 1:34:51 | 1:34:58 | |
been contained in the way that it
has. But those who undertake this | 1:34:58 | 1:35:04 | |
brazen and despicable act must have
known the potential locations. There | 1:35:04 | 1:35:12 | |
can be no feigning of impotence
anywhere on these benches with this. | 1:35:12 | 1:35:18 | |
Can I ask about the example from the
member from West Berkshire on Monday | 1:35:18 | 1:35:24 | |
in asking the Spanish Government to
hold the use of airports for the | 1:35:24 | 1:35:28 | |
refuelling by the Russian fleet?
That is indeed a matter, of course | 1:35:28 | 1:35:34 | |
it is the case that other member
states within the European Union | 1:35:34 | 1:35:38 | |
have, at least one member state, has
indeed refused the Russian state the | 1:35:38 | 1:35:44 | |
possibility of refuelling its ships
at their place. This is a matter | 1:35:44 | 1:35:50 | |
that is raised from time to time and
I recognise the significance and the | 1:35:50 | 1:35:57 | |
passion with which the honourable
gentleman and his colleagues have | 1:35:57 | 1:36:00 | |
raised it. Mr Speaker, nobody should
be surprised that Russia have denied | 1:36:00 | 1:36:08 | |
any kind of responsibility of the
attacks in Salisbury. This is a | 1:36:08 | 1:36:12 | |
country that has denied taking part
in the Olympics doping scandal, they | 1:36:12 | 1:36:19 | |
have denied taking part in the
rigging of elections and worst of | 1:36:19 | 1:36:23 | |
all they have denied any involvement
in the killing of Alexander the. | 1:36:23 | 1:36:27 | |
Given that, with the Prime Minister
assure the House that as this matter | 1:36:27 | 1:36:31 | |
goes forward, Russia would be
treated in accordance with its | 1:36:31 | 1:36:34 | |
actions and not with its words? My
honourable friend makes a very | 1:36:34 | 1:36:39 | |
important point. I think we should
all be very clear that the attitude | 1:36:39 | 1:36:45 | |
of the Russian state is shown by
what it does, not by what it says. I | 1:36:45 | 1:36:51 | |
welcome the statements of the Prime
Minister and the actions that she | 1:36:51 | 1:36:55 | |
has outlined. She particularly said
there was a need for a new targeted | 1:36:55 | 1:37:00 | |
power to detain those suspected of
hostile action at the UK border. I | 1:37:00 | 1:37:03 | |
think many of us would be surprised
we going to ready have that power | 1:37:03 | 1:37:08 | |
and I wonder if she can say is there
a plan to bring forward emergency | 1:37:08 | 1:37:11 | |
legislation so that power can be put
in place very quickly? The power | 1:37:11 | 1:37:16 | |
currently exists for those with
suspected involvement in terrorism | 1:37:16 | 1:37:19 | |
but not for hostile state activity.
My right honourable friend the Home | 1:37:19 | 1:37:23 | |
Secretary will be looking at the
most appropriate legislative vehicle | 1:37:23 | 1:37:26 | |
to bring that power forward. | 1:37:26 | 1:37:31 | |
The Prime Minister was quite buy to
point out that this is the latest | 1:37:31 | 1:37:35 | |
acts by a criminal break state. One
would think about the Malaysians | 1:37:35 | 1:37:39 | |
airlines jet, the invasion of crime
area -- Crimea and the support for a | 1:37:39 | 1:37:48 | |
murderous regime. I'm horrified of
the statement read out on behalf of | 1:37:48 | 1:37:51 | |
the opposition's spokesman. Can I
add my voice to other members today | 1:37:51 | 1:37:56 | |
in asking the Prime Minister to look
at financial sanctions on | 1:37:56 | 1:38:03 | |
individuals closely associated with
the Putin regime as well as the | 1:38:03 | 1:38:07 | |
wider Russian economy? We look
across the board at all the tools | 1:38:07 | 1:38:11 | |
that are available to us. Of course
we operate within the rule of law | 1:38:11 | 1:38:17 | |
and there are certain criteria that
need to be met if sanctions are | 1:38:17 | 1:38:20 | |
going to be applied. I welcome the
Prime Minister's statement and look | 1:38:20 | 1:38:26 | |
forward to aggressively chasing down
that dirty Russian money. But there | 1:38:26 | 1:38:31 | |
are now 15 suspicious deaths and can
I asked the Prime Minister about the | 1:38:31 | 1:38:35 | |
prevalence of these death in the UK?
Are there more in the UK than in | 1:38:35 | 1:38:39 | |
other similar countries and if so
why? Is it because we have more | 1:38:39 | 1:38:44 | |
Russians or is it because washer is
deliberately targeting the UK? I | 1:38:44 | 1:38:52 | |
believe that one of the families
involved that they don't believe | 1:38:52 | 1:38:59 | |
there was any suspicion around the
death of their loved one. But if the | 1:38:59 | 1:39:03 | |
police believe it's right to reopen
cases then they will do so, but it's | 1:39:03 | 1:39:08 | |
up to the police to make that
operational decision. I thank the | 1:39:08 | 1:39:13 | |
Prime Minister for her calibrated
and robust response. Will she pay me | 1:39:13 | 1:39:17 | |
in paying tribute to the great
British intelligence agents that | 1:39:17 | 1:39:25 | |
serve our country. In light of what
has happened, if there needs to be a | 1:39:25 | 1:39:29 | |
reassessment of their personal
security in the UK, that should take | 1:39:29 | 1:39:33 | |
place without delay? I will be happy
to join my honourable friend in | 1:39:33 | 1:39:38 | |
welcoming, congratulating and
thanking all those who work for our | 1:39:38 | 1:39:42 | |
security and intelligence agencies
for the valuable work that they do | 1:39:42 | 1:39:45 | |
for us on a day-to-day basis and can
I say to him that it is each of | 1:39:45 | 1:39:50 | |
those agencies who will be
consistently ensuring that they are | 1:39:50 | 1:39:56 | |
considering the safety of their
staff. They recognise the important | 1:39:56 | 1:39:59 | |
work they do and how important it is
to ensure that their staff are safe. | 1:39:59 | 1:40:08 | |
Wash it has consistently behaved in
this manner of a long period of time | 1:40:08 | 1:40:12 | |
but that has not stopped the elite
of our major sporting organisations | 1:40:12 | 1:40:17 | |
such as the OECD and now been proven
to be corrupt Fifa regime under Sepp | 1:40:17 | 1:40:24 | |
Blatter for allocating major sports
tournaments to Russia. Does she | 1:40:24 | 1:40:26 | |
agree with me that these elite in
our sport need to look to themselves | 1:40:26 | 1:40:33 | |
and not isolate themselves from
human rights issues and criminal law | 1:40:33 | 1:40:35 | |
when it comes to allocating these
major tournaments? As the honourable | 1:40:35 | 1:40:41 | |
gentleman will know the elite in
certain sporting associations have | 1:40:41 | 1:40:50 | |
found themselves under scrutiny in a
variety of ways. It's important we | 1:40:50 | 1:40:55 | |
all have a care to issues around
human rights and other matters when | 1:40:55 | 1:40:59 | |
these things are being considered.
Can I first begin by welcoming the | 1:40:59 | 1:41:07 | |
Prime Minister's robust and
proportionate statement. Further to | 1:41:07 | 1:41:09 | |
the statement from my honourable
friend the member from Albert and | 1:41:09 | 1:41:15 | |
Rothwell, the Leader of the
Opposition's spokesperson seems to | 1:41:15 | 1:41:19 | |
have suggested that there were some
parallel between Salisbury and Iraq. | 1:41:19 | 1:41:23 | |
Could the Prime Minister confirm
that in Iraq no weapons of mass | 1:41:23 | 1:41:27 | |
destruction were ever found, get in
Salisbury three people are in | 1:41:27 | 1:41:31 | |
hospital because chemical weapons
were used and can she give us an | 1:41:31 | 1:41:34 | |
update please on their condition?
What we are talking about here in | 1:41:34 | 1:41:39 | |
the United Kingdom is the use of
chemical weapons, unnerved agent, a | 1:41:39 | 1:41:46 | |
military grade nerve agent against
people here in the United Kingdom. | 1:41:46 | 1:41:50 | |
That is very clear and I think it is
quite wrong and outrageous that the | 1:41:50 | 1:41:56 | |
Leader of the Opposition's spokesman
has made the comments that he has. | 1:41:56 | 1:42:01 | |
The horrendous incident in Salisbury
has placed a huge and unforeseen | 1:42:01 | 1:42:05 | |
burden on the local police. We know
that the police services faced | 1:42:05 | 1:42:09 | |
unprecedented cuts I wonder if the
Prime Minister can an insurance -- | 1:42:09 | 1:42:15 | |
can give an assurance that this
additional burden will be met from | 1:42:15 | 1:42:20 | |
central resources and not fall upon
the local police to pick up the | 1:42:20 | 1:42:25 | |
bill? What has happened in this
case, the initial response that | 1:42:25 | 1:42:30 | |
incident was taken by Wiltshire
Police. When it became clear the | 1:42:30 | 1:42:34 | |
nature of this incident, actually
they were able to not draw only on | 1:42:34 | 1:42:39 | |
support from neighbouring forces,
but crucially the counterterrorism | 1:42:39 | 1:42:42 | |
capability came into place and
counterterrorism police have taken | 1:42:42 | 1:42:46 | |
on the investigation and are running
it. It's not just about resources, | 1:42:46 | 1:42:52 | |
but it's about the capabilities
those police officers have and the | 1:42:52 | 1:42:56 | |
counterterrorism force has that has
been able to be brought to bear in | 1:42:56 | 1:43:00 | |
this instance. The primaries -- can
the Prime Minister give any update | 1:43:00 | 1:43:06 | |
on the health of the brave policeman
who went to help and can she pay | 1:43:06 | 1:43:10 | |
tribute to him? I'm happy to pay to
be to Detective Sergeant Nick | 1:43:10 | 1:43:16 | |
Bailey. He said he was merely doing
his job which is the attitude taken | 1:43:16 | 1:43:22 | |
by all our police officers on a
daily basis, no matter what danger | 1:43:22 | 1:43:25 | |
they find themselves in. He remained
seriously ill, but he has been | 1:43:25 | 1:43:30 | |
engaging and has been conscious. The
response from the Prime Minister in | 1:43:30 | 1:43:37 | |
reaction to this terrible incident
in Salisbury is proportionate, | 1:43:37 | 1:43:41 | |
appropriate and robust, but we need
to go further to make sure all | 1:43:41 | 1:43:46 | |
members desist from appearing on any
Russian channels, including Russia | 1:43:46 | 1:43:54 | |
today and Sputnik. I've spoken about
the actions the government can take, | 1:43:54 | 1:44:01 | |
but there are actions that
individuals of this House can take | 1:44:01 | 1:44:05 | |
to send a clear message. I strongly
welcome my honourable friend's stud | 1:44:05 | 1:44:11 | |
fasteners and statement ship in
standing up to this Russian | 1:44:11 | 1:44:15 | |
aggression, but this attempted
murder of a Russian citizen on our | 1:44:15 | 1:44:21 | |
soils would not enrich the lives of
any Russians in Russia? | 1:44:21 | 1:44:38 | |
Democracy is long overdue in Russia.
There is not a single person in | 1:44:38 | 1:44:45 | |
Russia who is prosperity well
improved because of the actions | 1:44:45 | 1:44:50 | |
taken. It's about the state and not
the care of the Russian people. The | 1:44:50 | 1:44:57 | |
Prime Minister will know a strong
Royal Navy is a strong deterrent | 1:44:57 | 1:45:01 | |
against Russian aggression. But the
Prime Minister make sure there is | 1:45:01 | 1:45:04 | |
new money available to the Royal
Navy said that there are no cuts to | 1:45:04 | 1:45:13 | |
the Navy or the Royal Marines? We
have been enhancing the fleet of the | 1:45:13 | 1:45:17 | |
Royal Navy. Last summer I went on
the new aircraft carrier Queen | 1:45:17 | 1:45:20 | |
Elizabeth, which is a very fine
example of not just of our Royal | 1:45:20 | 1:45:27 | |
Navy, but the commitment this
government has given to our defence. | 1:45:27 | 1:45:31 | |
Can I welcome the Prime Minister's
statement and her robust response. | 1:45:31 | 1:45:44 | |
Would she confirm what discussions
we are having with the Republic of | 1:45:44 | 1:45:47 | |
Ireland. She has referred to the
border and Ms for security there. We | 1:45:47 | 1:45:53 | |
share a common travel area with
them, what measures are being taken | 1:45:53 | 1:45:57 | |
to make sure that border area is
secure? The Common travel area and | 1:45:57 | 1:46:03 | |
the operation of the CTA is
something we discuss in a raid on a | 1:46:03 | 1:46:06 | |
basis with the Irish government. We
have been looking in recent times to | 1:46:06 | 1:46:11 | |
enhance security arrangements that
have been put in place | 1:46:11 | 1:46:13 |
Live coverage of the statement in the House of Commons by prime minster Theresa May updating the House on the investigation into the poisoning in Salisbury and measures to be taken against Russia after it missed a deadline to explain the nerve agent used.