All our Tories voted for the Rwanda Bill

It was back on Thursday the 21st March in Parliament the Conservative, Lord President of the Council, Penny Mordaunt and MP for Portsmouth North, planned on Monday last week 15th April to organise the “Consideration of a Lords message to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, followed by debate on a motion on hospice funding. The subject for this debate was determined by…

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Chinese cyberattacks won’t silence us, say British lawmakers

Electoral Commission attack The plea from MPs came as Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden also prepared to accuse Chinese state-affiliated companies of being behind a separate set of attacks which hit Britain’s electoral watchdog in 2021. The Electoral Commission announced last year that it was the subject of the complex cyberattack, in which, it said, its systems were accessed by “hostile…

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Employment Minister Guy Opperman said the 'very troubled couple' are 'utterly irrelevant' to the UK

Sussex MP Tim Loughton said of Sussexes: 'I am ashamed that this couple bear the title of our great county'

Conservative MP Bob Seely is proposing a law to allow for Prince Harry and Meghan to lose their royal titles

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UK government warns their citizens not to join the conflict in Somaliland

The British government warns their citizens not to join the conflict in Somaliland, as that may amount to offences under UK legislation and they could be prosecuted upon return to the UK. Question Tim Loughton, Conservative MP for East Worthing and Shoreham raised in Parliament asked the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to monitor the number…

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The UK’s illegal migration bill is a nasty piece of work. So is the cruelty inflicted on refugee children. Alf Dubs Article for Athena Guardian “I’m a 16-year-old orphan from an African country escaping a war and religious persecution and I have a sibling living legally in the UK. What is a safe and legal route for me to come to the UK?” The home secretary, Suella Braverman, could not answer this question from Conservative MP Tim Loughton last November. One of the many problems with the illegal migration bill currently ricocheting its way through parliament is that it offers no answers to this question. It was a very long week for those of us in the Lords scrutinising the bill. The government’s anxiety to push through this piece of legislation – not the first to be acclaimed as providing the answers to small boat crossings (the nationality and borders bill promised the same and failed to deliver) – has meant the Lords has been sitting into the small hours, such is the resolve in the upper house to curb the bill’s more extreme and unworkable elements, of which there are many. #cruel # illegal #extreme #unworkable #cruella

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Home secretary Suella Braverman ‘out of her depth’ during Commons migration probe

Home secretary Suella Braverman ‘out of her depth’ during Commons migration probe

Suella Braverman appeared before the Commons Home Affairs Committee and was accused of being ‘out of her depth’ (Picture: PA Wire) Suella Braverman has been accused of being ‘out of her depth’ after she was unable to name a safe and legal route for migrants seeking sanctuary to come to the UK. The home secretary was asked by Tory MP Tim Loughton how a 16-year-old orphan trying to flee war and…

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〔編譯管淑平／綜合報導〕中國短影音社群媒體「抖音」國際版TikTok日前被揭露，會讓中國員工讀取美國用戶資料。不過，英國國會近日卻在TikTok上開設了帳號，為此，一批保守黨資深議員擔心資料被傳到中國，要求國會撤銷這個帳號。 美國政治新聞網站《政客（Politico）》歐洲版29日報導，根據27日向英國國會上議院、下議院議長發出的聯名信，要求國會撤銷帳號的議員包括外交委員會主席圖根哈特（Tom Tugendhat）、前保守黨黨魁史密斯（Iain Duncan Smith）、保守黨普通國會議員委員會「1922委員會」副主席加尼（Nusrat Ghani）、議員勞頓（Tim Loughton）、上議院議員女爵甘迺迪（Baroness Kennedy）和艾爾頓勳爵（David Alton）等人，都是去年3月遭中國報復制裁的議員。 連署議員批評國會在TikTok開設帳號之舉，令他們「驚訝和失望」，並指根據中國2017年通過的國家情報法，企業在被政府要求時需要交出資料。議員質疑TikTok高層2021年對國會所作保證，稱其用戶資料不會與中國抖音分享的可信度。 聯名信說，「習近平政府可能可讀取我們孩子手機上的個人資料，應是一大令人憂心的理由」，力促國會「在能獲得可信保證，不會有任何資料被傳到中國」之前，撤銷該帳號。 英國國會27日在推特發文，宣佈在TikTok成立國會官方帳號，推文說「我們在TikTok上線了」，力促大家追蹤，掌握「來自伊莉莎白塔的新聞和幕後內幕」，伊莉莎白塔意指國會大廈。 國會發言人證實收到這封聯名信，「在設立這個英國國會的TikTok帳號之前，我們採取所有必要步驟，確保我們沒有任何資料會有風險」，發言人以安全理由拒絕進一步說明這些措施。 國會商業、能源和產業策略委員會議員正在安排聽證會日期，要求TikTok高層出席說明該公司如何處理用戶資料的問題。 TikTok歐洲政府關係與政策副總裁貝特蘭（Theo Bertram）日前致函該委員會，表示該公司從未被要求將用戶資料交給中國政府，「若被要求，我們也不會提供」，至於中國抖音員工能否讀取用戶資料，他說是有「一些有限度和受管制員工資料讀取權限」，例如給在中國的工程師。 https://www.instagram.com/p/CgnY2vwP_lu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Debate wrapped up in time for Easter break

Parliament is closed for two weeks and some of us wish an election would occur in May but there is no information about an voting listed for debate this week on the Government website. Many Sussex MPs however contributed to several other debates just before Parliament closed. Last Tuesday the theme of RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) Bicentenary was raised and one of the speakers was…

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Report: Beijing behind cyberattacks on UK MPs and peers, deputy PM to warn

A group of British politicians has been targeted by Chinese cyberattacks, U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will tell parliament on Monday, according to the Sunday Times. Alison Giles, the parliament’s director of security, has called a group of MPs and peers, who are all members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), for a briefing on the matter, the newspaper said. The…

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UK hints at banning Chinese imports with forced labor links – POLITICO

UK hints at banning Chinese imports with forced labor links – POLITICO

LONDON — The U.K. could follow Washington and ban goods imported from the Chinese region of Xinjiang that were made with forced labor, according to a senior British minister. The suggestion came as a string of China-skeptic Conservative MPs lined up to urge the U.K. government to follow suit in a bid to pile pressure on the Asian giant over its treatment of the region’s Uyghur Muslim minority. A…

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YOOOOOO! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

huh, I just stumbled across a Tory back bencher, Tim Loughton calling for Boris Johnson to go, on twitter.

He's also the acting chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, and has been very pro-Brexit.

He's also very much what you would expect from a Tory.

Tory MP Tim Loughton has introduced a Bill in the Commons to mirror the US Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act. The Government should adopt it and make it law.