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Last night the Commons debated the Foreign Affairs Committee's reports on illicit finance - so I set out where the Government has made...

The 'Rules Based Order' is a staple of our foreign policy discourse. But the truth is, we need a far clearer strategy for defending the...

No-one forgets their first visit to Kyev - or the posters everywhere with a simple message: 'Be brave like Ukraine'. Ministers should...

Today, three Hodge Hill schools are celebrating thousands of pounds in prize money as they topped the table in the first Hodge Hill...

So, this week I led the debate in the House of Commons on the East Birmingham Tram. It's a critical bit of infrastructure that will help...

Remarks to Chatham House, Thursday 8 June 2023 It's an honour to join your panel this evening on whether the UK can afford 'global...

Here's my piece for Open Democracy today on the scandal of ministerial stonewalling about sanctions evasion: https://www.opendemocracy.ne...

For those who missed our debate on financing Ukraine reconstruction in the House of Commons last night, I thought I'd share some of the...

So today we saw the Integrated Review ‘refresh’. Some good stuff in it. But: this government’s challenge is that they are a serially...

Remarks to Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Prague, 5 September 2022 Chairman, thanks so much...

For some years now, we have been having a debate in this country and among our allies about the influence of China and this vexed,...

Remarks to OECD Parliamentary Network, Saeima of the Republic of Latvia Thanks you much, Mr. Chairman for that kind introduction. It’s...

Boris Johnson’s law breaking is about to cost us a fortune Liam Byrne, Tom Tugendhat and Vice President Sefcovic at the Berlaymont As...

The National Security Bill got a fairly warm welcome when it came to second reading. But it’s missing one crucial component: measures to...

Liam is the Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, a member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, elected Chair of the Global Parliamentary...

As the Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine this week, we had a debate in Parliament about the shape of things to come. Here’s my speech for...

An Oligarch’s yacht sets sail Why isn’t Britain actually seizing the yachts, jets, mansions – or football clubs of Putin’s mates, when EU...

Graphic: The Daily Telegraph How to kick our dependence on both Quite rightly there’s a debate about how we kick European dependence on...

Fitzroy Maclean, the great soldier-diplomat who organised supplies for Marshal Tito, once observed that the many diverse people of former...

Fitzroy Maclean, the great soldier-diplomat who organised supplies for Marshal Tito, once observed that the many diverse people of former...